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<p>[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7605186, member: 21705"]Here are a couple of other mint related errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is from a really bad batch of copper planchets used in early 1794 and usually found on S-17. This one managed to make it to S-18. It has large laminations on both the obverse and the Reverse. It appears to me that the laminations broke off after striking, though it is difficult to be sure due to it's condition.:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309376[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is interesting because it has a CUD, a strike-through and a broken planchet lamination which is not parallel with the surface. It does a good job of looking like a new die break through the date. The reverse had a CUD over ST. It also has a regular break and regular lamination. It has it all.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7605186, member: 21705"]Here are a couple of other mint related errors. The first is from a really bad batch of copper planchets used in early 1794 and usually found on S-17. This one managed to make it to S-18. It has large laminations on both the obverse and the Reverse. It appears to me that the laminations broke off after striking, though it is difficult to be sure due to it's condition.: [ATTACH=full]1309376[/ATTACH] This is interesting because it has a CUD, a strike-through and a broken planchet lamination which is not parallel with the surface. It does a good job of looking like a new die break through the date. The reverse had a CUD over ST. It also has a regular break and regular lamination. It has it all. [ATTACH=full]1309378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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