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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1003190, member: 68&quot;]The planchet used to make this coin was punched out of a long strip of metal</p><p>by what&#039;s called the &quot;blanking press&quot;.&nbsp; The strip from which it is punched is made</p><p>of three layers of metal bonded together with heat and high pressure.&nbsp; In the </p><p>old days they actually used dynamite exploded above the sheets to fuse them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The dies simply shear the round planchet from the strip.&nbsp; As the die goes through </p><p>it smears the top side of the sheet across the center.&nbsp; These outer sheets are </p><p>quite thin.&nbsp; Depending on the sharpness and orientation of the shearing die the</p><p>metal can be anywhere from not smeared at all to be very difficult determining </p><p>which side of the coin or planchet was up when it was cut. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s quite normal to have a lot of variation here even from one edge of a coin to </p><p>another.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This date is worth about 50c in unc and has to be quite gem to get a good pre-</p><p>mium.&nbsp; It is actually rather scarce in gem but the demand is low.&nbsp; It can be found</p><p>in Proof Like with great effort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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