Wrong Planchet / Off-Metal Errors
By MintErrorNews.com on Thursday, January 10, 2008Filed Under: Errors
Wrong planchet and off-metal errors occur when a correctly made blank from one denomination is accidentaly fed into a press for another denomination. Examples are a nickel struck on a cent planchet and a cent struck on a dime planchet. The coin struck on an incorrect blank will weigh exactly what the denomination of that blank would have been. An even more dramatic wrong planchet error is a coin struck on a previously struck coin of a different metal.
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Mike Simpson | Feb 9, 2009 | Reply
I recently found a 1993 canadian dime that is magnetic. So i did some research on this topic and found that it wasn’t untill 1999 when they started minting the coins out of steel. up until then they were supposed ot be made from nikle, i was just wondering if there was any significance in this.