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Message:: [QUOTE="JCro57, post: 3240280, member: 92083"]I know many of you have seen and are familiar with "Wrong Planchet" errors. Specifically, this is when a planchet for one denomination (a cent) somehow managed to become mixed in with planchets for a different denomination (a nickel) and was then struck by a different denomination's dies. Below are two coins I have - a nickel and a quarter -  that were struck on copper/bronze cent planchets. [ATTACH=full]848022[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848023[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848024[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848026[/ATTACH] However, wrong denominations on zinc cent planchets are incredibly more scarce than those on copper cent planchets. Below is a new acquisition I will be receiving soon which is a Jefferson nickel struck on a zinc cent planchet. [ATTACH=full]848034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848035[/ATTACH] Zinc blanks are no longer punched out of metal sheets at the Mint but are instead produced at Jardens Zinc Products in Tennessee; they also upset the rim there, in addition to being electroplated with a thin layer of copper, and are then shipped to the Mint to be struck. Despite billions of cents being produced each year, these error types on zinc planchets are very, very scarce. In fact, I can't even find a record of one being sold on Heritage Auctions, Great Collections, or eBay. From what I heard, there are fewer than 20 examples and are all from the same year - 1995.[/QUOTE]