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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCro57, post: 3111890, member: 92083&quot;]I don&#039;t even know where to begin with this...</p><p><br /></p><p>It is like a struck clad layer, with a blurry and mirrored non-Struck side and a detailed struck side...except it is a copper layer weighing .2 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickels don&#039;t have copper cores and they aren&#039;t clad layered, though they do contain copper. But if the copper were, say, the core of a dime struck by nickel dies, it is still way too thin. Higher denominations would be even thicker. Or is it part of a split planchet from a copper cent planchet???</p><p><br /></p><p>Where did this thin copper layer come from? I suppose a clad layer of something fell off, then the copper core got struck by nickel dies, and then the struck copper core itself split apart. And is there also a clip (in front of Jefferson&#039;s face), or just how it broke off? What a bizarre and fascinating error!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone with any knowledge of this type of error, please feel free to advise.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I just wish PCGS could have turned the coin a bit so it wasnt covering up the date.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789757[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]789758[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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