Yesterday I learned die state and die stage is the pretty much the same. Cleared up some confusion. Is a damaged planchet, and a defective planchet, the same thing s well? Or are they different? Thank you.
Basically the same. A damaged planchet probably can't be used but a defective one can. Loose translation.
Damaged planchet - Such as mangled by machinery or some outside means. Defective planchet - Such as lamination error, occluded gas bubble, missing clad layer, etc. Just my opinion! ~ Chris
I would go with that. Defective means contains manufacturing error before it got to mint, damaged basically means mint machinery damaged it in production. I would find defective planchets more interesting but to each his own.
Thank you. I appreciate the help. Just to be clear, is a damaged planchet considered an error if it happened during the minting process?
