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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 142175, member: 4626"]What was that planchet originally for, anyway? Any ideas how it ended up among the normal clad dollar planchets? If it wasn't done intentionally would have to be amongst astronomical odds to happen by accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can see this guy is selling a lot of Ike dollar on wrong planchet errors. The Ike dollar on a dime planchet is pretty dramatic, lol, wouldn't mind owning that even though I'm not the biggest fan of errors usually. Love the Ike on the cent planchet too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The real dramatic one is the planchet that has the diamater of a quarter but the the thickness of a dime... could be that a clad sheet meant to be punched for dimes was punched for quarters, that error is known to exist but rare... and to top it off, it was then stamped with the Ike dollar dies, so you have two errors going on there. The pressure applied to that thin of a planchet actually cracked through the cladding.</p><p><br /></p><p>This guy has tons of errors and patterns... all pretty amazing, and all very expensive, lol... but it's clear if errors are your thing and money is no object you can't go wrong buying fro him, has some pretty amazing stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 142175, member: 4626"]What was that planchet originally for, anyway? Any ideas how it ended up among the normal clad dollar planchets? If it wasn't done intentionally would have to be amongst astronomical odds to happen by accident. Can see this guy is selling a lot of Ike dollar on wrong planchet errors. The Ike dollar on a dime planchet is pretty dramatic, lol, wouldn't mind owning that even though I'm not the biggest fan of errors usually. Love the Ike on the cent planchet too. The real dramatic one is the planchet that has the diamater of a quarter but the the thickness of a dime... could be that a clad sheet meant to be punched for dimes was punched for quarters, that error is known to exist but rare... and to top it off, it was then stamped with the Ike dollar dies, so you have two errors going on there. The pressure applied to that thin of a planchet actually cracked through the cladding. This guy has tons of errors and patterns... all pretty amazing, and all very expensive, lol... but it's clear if errors are your thing and money is no object you can't go wrong buying fro him, has some pretty amazing stuff.[/QUOTE]
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