Quarter Lamination Error

Professional coin grading service pcgs recently certified two extremely rare and unusual washington quarter errors.

Quarter lamination error. For more valuable coin tips give the video a thum. Look for these expensive coins worth money. The first is the third known example of a two tailed quarter likely struck in. To be rolled to an incorrect thickness or because the metal strip was intended for another coin denomination such as a quarter planchet cut from a metal roll intended for dimes.

We look at lamination error coins to look for in pocket change. A coin with a fragment of metal missing or peeled off the coin s surface. I can be as small as a pin head or almost as large as the coin itself and is easy to identify since it looks like metal leaf when attached and grainy if detached. Mint made errors are errors in a coin made by the mint.

A lamination flaw is a planchet defect that results from metal impurities. An example of a common issue with a lamination is this 1958 d lincoln cent with an easy to see attached planchet lamination on its obverse. Split planchet errors occur on solid metal coins such as alloyed coins like bronze pennies or copper nickel five cent coins and occur due to impurities in those planchets. This doubled die will then strike out potentially hundreds even thousands of doubled die coins such is the case with the 1955 doubled die penny some coin analysts think 20 000 of these 1955 doubled die pennies were made.

Lamination is when flakes of metal being to peel or flake of a planchet do to impurities in the alloy and this can be attached or detached. 15 400 learn how these mistakes occur see. Split planchet errors are also similar to lamination errors which occur when parts of the coin flake off due to impurities or other abnormalities in the planchet. When the hub creates a secondary misaligned image on the coin that s when a doubled die coin is created.

The die is imprinted by a machine called a hub.