Three Neat Errors on a 25c Washington

I won this on Great Collections today. Though I usually always get struck coins featuring full dates, this "No Date" piece was too unique to pass up featuring three Mint errors.

1. It is struck on a 47% clip.
2. It is broadstruck.
3. It is struck on a Type 2 Blank (the label is wrong; it is not a Type 1 Blank). Though it does not have a rim - making it a blank - it is both burnished and annealed, thus is a Type 2 Blank...not a type 2 planchet (with a rim), but a type 2 blank.

MS64 by PCGS. Enjoy!



Please allow me to illustrate the difference between a type 1 and type 2 blank with two unstruck Eisenhower pieces from my collection.

Below is a type 1 blank. This was struck by the coin press but was never sent to the annealing oven and is not burnished (polished). Notice it is very dull and flat in appearance with not a hint of shine to it.



Now compare the surface of the above coin to the one below, which still has no rim, but has that polished look as it has been burnished and annealed. That is a type 2 blank. Again, neither of these have rims, so they are both blanks, but one was burnished and one was not, making two different kinds of blanks.

 

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Very cool, thank you for sharing and for providing the educational bit.

 

Sorry.. as always, I just want to see the full slab!

 

This is a curved clip, correct?

 

Yep, a LARGE curved clip

 

A great piece. Congrats.

 

so 18 cents face value ?

kewl error !!

 

13.25 cents if only 53% remains

 

I know you posted awhile back but dang, now I'm gonna need to find an Ike blank. Im a closet Eisenhower dollar collector and yours are really cool as a pair like that.

 

They run around $100 for a type 1 and type 2 for clad ones. Silver ones run about $600

 

Great triple error coin, @JCro57.

Quite surprised to see even blanks can cost $600. Are blanks that rare to justify the price, or is it the metal price?