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Message:: [QUOTE="Oldhoopster, post: 3653794, member: 84179"]The reason why you're hearing it's not possible is that the U.S. Mint DID NOT make any coins for Canada during the 70s and 80s.  That is the logical explanation you said you were looking for.  You also said you wanted to "find out when America got planchets from other countries".  Answer = THEY DIDN'T (at least not since the early 1800s).  At various times the mint made coins for foreign countries.  These are well documented if you want to do the resesrch, and as I recall none were on cent sized 98% copper planchets. However, there are error coins known on both thin and thick planchets (members even posted pics of these).  If you research the coin making process, you'll learn that metal ingots are rolled into long strips of the specified thicknesses.  And with any high speed manufacturing process, mistakes can occur.  Your coin only weighs slightly less than the min tolerance, which means the strip was just a little thinner than spec. So which scenario makes the most sense?  That it was struck on a planchet that has no realistic way to be in the mint, or it was struck on a thin planchet, which can occur in the manufActuring process and examples are known to exist? That's the problem, your making conclusions without understanding the minting process or history. The people that you say are quick to give you crap instead of real information, are giving you real info.[/QUOTE]