Hello all. Just a little help needed. I have a blank planchet but I do not know for which coin it was meant to be struck. I believe it may be a liberty nickel due to the coins thickness. In the pictures there are four nickels. Starting from the left to right is the blank, then the 1902 liberty, then the 1937 buffalo, and finally the jefferson. The buffalo and jefferson nickels look at bit thicker or am I fooling myself. Any help would be appreciated. Ignore the fingernail lol.
Your planchet is for a Jefferson Nickel. The rims on struck coins are going to look different than on a planchet. You can't tell an earlier type coin planchet from the rims on a series of struck coins held together.
Is there any difference in the makeup of a planchet for Liberty, Buffalo, or Jefferson nickels (non war issue)? All 3 are 21.2 mm, weigh 5 grams, and are 75% copper with 25% nickel. Other than finding one in a mint-sealed bag or previously unopened roll, can it be determined which series an unstruck planchet is from for those three?
There may be differences in the upsetting of the rim (cross sectional profile may be slightly different) but I have no proof of that or experience in what those differences if any would look like. I do know that the mint made slight changes in the upsetting die from time to time on various coins to correct problems with rim fill, finning etc.
The best way to study possible earlier types of planchets is to view and compare the rims on Off Center strikes of Liberty and Buffalo Nickels.
Yes that would be the way, but I don't have any or easy access to them. Have to depend on those that do.
