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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 1308653, member: 15019&quot;]Well, that would make it an off-metal strike as well, as the 1982 Panama 1/2 balboa coins were all copper-nickel clad.</p><p>I totally agree that it seems like an assisted error, made for profit by a mint insider. Usually with striking US coins there are ultra strict methods, but perhaps for foreign coins these methods became loose enough for an opportunist to take advantage.</p><p>On a side note, earlier today I also saw a 2001 Malaysian 1 sen coin that was quadruple struck, and each strike separate on one of four sides. With that kind of perfect symmetry it&#039;s pretty obviously such an assisted error. That one sold for $200 and someone got ripped off. this one, regardless of the context I think someone got a great deal.</p><p>Assisted errors from US mints are probably just as hard to find, if not more so, than bonafide accidental errors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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