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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 309182, member: 66&quot;]I disagree, I&#039;m thinking die deterioration doubling.&nbsp; Still not worth anything, just the result of a worn out die.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin looks like a tapered thin planchet.&nbsp; When they roll the ingots, at each end the metal strip tapers&nbsp; from a full thickness down to a thin edge.&nbsp; Those ends are supposed to be cut off and recycled but if they don&#039;t remove the whole tapered part you can have blanks punched from it that are full thickness on one side and thin on the other.&nbsp; These blanks are the full diameter so the handle just like the regular blanks, go through the upsetting mills fine and through the press feeding mechanisms.&nbsp; When the coins are struck the wll be fairly normal on one edge and weak on the other, but they will still expand in the collar and will have a reeded edge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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