Error Experts, Please Help; Is this a blank or a planchet?

Well, to update you, it appears this IS struck on a type 1 blank - no rim.

Personally, this is a superb and incredibly rare find. Cents struck on type 1 blanks are super scarce.

 

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That is good information, thanks for sharing it.
Does being broadstruck on one side only make them Rare ?

 

Well, I don't think it is possible to have only one side broadstruck. But it is very, very rare to have a coin struck on a blank that somehow skipped the upsetting mill.

 

I would guess that a full partial collar strike could be considered to be a one sided broadstrike. The defining feature of a broad strike is that it is struck without the collar being present. In the case of a full partial collar half of the planchet extends above the collar, so you could say the top (hammer) side was broadstruck while the bottom (anvil) side was struck in the collar.

 

Back in the day, the term used was
'Blank Planchet' - it wasn't till the
early/mid '70's, or so, that we dinos
started using those two words Separately !

A Type 1 Blank is the disc just punched out of the strip.

A Type 2 Planchet has gone thru the upsetting machine,
getting the raised rim.

(NGC does use the term Type 2 Blank to label a
Blank that has been annealed - more confusion!)

 

.I have a 1942 cent that was struck on a blank. I guess you would have to say the Obverse is struck Out of Collar (broadstruck). While the Reverse is struck in the collar. It looks like a broadstike on one side.and sort of regular on the reverse.

 

I am not so sure that is struck on a blank

 

I think I see the partial collar referenxe by @Conder101 . That takes Collar to a whole new reference.
Take my statement with a grain of salt.
I am still trying to get a handle on the square rimmed rev. And the ballooned rims Inc.
With out it disturbing the surfaces. And if it is altered how did they do it.
Cool coin. Alurid.

 

A few others were not sure. It is not easy to be sure of something you may not have ever seen before. And so it goes.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1-cent-collar-slip-or-luck-token.285442/page-2

 

The side view in the attached thread adds a little credence to what I am seeing, It doesn't look beveled to me in the above photos.
Sorry, for the interruption.

 

I wonder why Lincoln cents on the proper metal and denomination are super scarce on blanks, yet many cents struck on the wrong denomination's planchet (e.g. cent struck on a dime) are blanks?

Can anyone explain why?

 

That is an interesting observation. Could it be a results of "mint assisted errors"?

 

No sure, but it is true for coins over several decades. Even many nickels on cent planchets are blanks

 

It could be just the way blanks and planchets are handled and the way the are moved around at different points of the processes they have to go though.
Then the fact when an Error coin is sent in to be slabbed the owner gets to pay to have what they want written on the slab. IMO a lot of these are bogus, and have incorect attibutions. And 20 years ago they where all considered "Blanks".
It would be interesting to do a study inside the mint to find out which errors
are really the rarest. Just for the record you know. I know it would not change the value of many coins due to the fact that Rarity is not all ways a factor in the value
of some coins.

 

I say it's a blank. Just compare the nickel it looks like a rim as well. Its a nice coin on a blank. Imo. Is there a such thing as a type 1 that is not broadstruck? Oh yea thats impossible. If it were a planchet the rim would be full. The strike wouldn't flatten the rim. Anacs got it rite with type 1

 

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Here is a slide/page I made to help with the coin I posted originally. I welcome all comments.

 

A nother easy way to check is the
view the edge of the coin.

A broadstruck or off center coin
struck on a Type 1 Blank will have
(in the vast majority of cases)
the 'cut and tear' marks that we
see INSIDE of a clipped planchet.

 

@physics-fan3.14 what do you think about my slide?