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<p>[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2047409, member: 69760"]The seller listed it as a wrong metal error coin! So, I believe it is a bronze 5 cent planchet, unless the seller simply is referring to a nickel alloy for a penny... I did a brief search and the only thing that I could find (again briefly), as the seller mentioned, is the 1943 copper-plated bronze penny (which sold for $1 million).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, it's got at least two-three errors: wrong metal (nickel alloy for penny, though this may be part of the nature of a wrong planchet; or, wrong planchet metal in bronze instead of nickel, sort of like having a silver alloy for a penny planchet), die cap, and wrong planchet size (larger nickel planchet "fitted" on smaller penny die as opposed to a less rare smaller planchet on a larger die).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2047409, member: 69760"]The seller listed it as a wrong metal error coin! So, I believe it is a bronze 5 cent planchet, unless the seller simply is referring to a nickel alloy for a penny... I did a brief search and the only thing that I could find (again briefly), as the seller mentioned, is the 1943 copper-plated bronze penny (which sold for $1 million). So, it's got at least two-three errors: wrong metal (nickel alloy for penny, though this may be part of the nature of a wrong planchet; or, wrong planchet metal in bronze instead of nickel, sort of like having a silver alloy for a penny planchet), die cap, and wrong planchet size (larger nickel planchet "fitted" on smaller penny die as opposed to a less rare smaller planchet on a larger die).[/QUOTE]
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