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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4655908, member: 77814"]remember, this is a badly worn die, circulated and icky dirty 1987 Zincoln ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint doesn't even make those planchets. The cent planchets are made by Jarden Zinc products in Tennessee and delivered to the US Mint facilities in large pallets which contain 700,000 planchets each. Of course they create the planchets which go through a blanking machine; then upsetting machine; then cleaning, smoothing and polishing; then the copper electroplating process using an "oblique barrel plating line" to ensure the copper plating covers the entire planchet including the rim. The US Mint receives the planchets which are ready for minting.</p><p><br /></p><p>So one has to first understand the Jarden processes, not the pre Zinc cent processes. But you can still get a tapered planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>but considering this one is slightly "not round" and the edge shows wavers, one could guess that it got lightly smashed after it left the mint. Just lightly, nothing like those machines that flatten coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>that would be my guess ... damaged and a badly worn die which also created a bulbous ridge ring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4655908, member: 77814"]remember, this is a badly worn die, circulated and icky dirty 1987 Zincoln ... The Mint doesn't even make those planchets. The cent planchets are made by Jarden Zinc products in Tennessee and delivered to the US Mint facilities in large pallets which contain 700,000 planchets each. Of course they create the planchets which go through a blanking machine; then upsetting machine; then cleaning, smoothing and polishing; then the copper electroplating process using an "oblique barrel plating line" to ensure the copper plating covers the entire planchet including the rim. The US Mint receives the planchets which are ready for minting. So one has to first understand the Jarden processes, not the pre Zinc cent processes. But you can still get a tapered planchet. but considering this one is slightly "not round" and the edge shows wavers, one could guess that it got lightly smashed after it left the mint. Just lightly, nothing like those machines that flatten coins. that would be my guess ... damaged and a badly worn die which also created a bulbous ridge ring.[/QUOTE]
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