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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1136727, member: 15445&quot;]<b>fun pedigree</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You could create a fun pedigree for every blank in the set.&nbsp; You know for instance that the cent was left over from 1877 Indian cent production in Philadelphia.&nbsp; It didn’t get struck as the key date Indian in 1877 and remained in storage in Philadelphia for 30 years.&nbsp; It was at that time the San Francisco mint was in need of planchets to make their first run of 1908-S Indian cents.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the shipment of Philadelphia blanks was delayed causing few 1908-S cents to be made that year.&nbsp; This particular planchet didn’t actually go into San Francisco coin production until 1909 when the West Coast mint was making VDB Lincoln cents.&nbsp; Someone may have found this coin in an original roll of 1909-S VDB cents.&nbsp; It is apparently a nice example of a 1909-S VDB Type 2 planchet.&nbsp; The hobby is uncertain whether it is un-struck 1909-S VDB or if it is a 1909-S VDB that has been struck 100% off center.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, if you weigh it, you would discover that this T2 planchet is actually copper coated zinc which wasn’t in production until 73 years later. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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