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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1646322, member: 37498"]The best way to figure out if a coin is struck on the wrong planchet is to weigh it on a good scale. This will help solve 99% of these type of questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was a nickel struck on an penny planchet, it would be thinner than what we see in the 3rd photo, and it would weigh half as much as a normal nickel (2.5g vs 5g). If for whatever strange reason a copper planchet with the exact dimensions of a nickel planchet made it into the mint, it would have a slightly different weight than a normal nickel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1646322, member: 37498"]The best way to figure out if a coin is struck on the wrong planchet is to weigh it on a good scale. This will help solve 99% of these type of questions. If it was a nickel struck on an penny planchet, it would be thinner than what we see in the 3rd photo, and it would weigh half as much as a normal nickel (2.5g vs 5g). If for whatever strange reason a copper planchet with the exact dimensions of a nickel planchet made it into the mint, it would have a slightly different weight than a normal nickel.[/QUOTE]
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