Luvdawgs-migration Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 I purchased a few off-metal planchet Canadian coins, and was able to find them at a good price. I guess that's because they don't have as big a demand as US error coins. What has your experience been with foreign error coins? Susan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmarguli Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 I've sold some off center ones and the prices I got were OK - maybe $20. I've got one off metal coin that I picked up for a few dollars. It's french. No idea of its value. The doubled dies don't seem to bring any real premium for foreign coins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2labmom Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Maybe a dumb question, but what is an off metal coin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVillageProwler Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 An off-metal coin is one struck not in the metal intended for it. For example, some 1972 U.S. cents were struck in aluminum. That's an off-metal striking, since they're supposed to be copper or bronze or whatever... (I may have gotten the date wrong, but you get the point... I'm obviously no moderns expert.) EVP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2labmom Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Thanks for the explain, EVP. I had no clue what they were. Now I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmarguli Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 It was 1974 and they were intended to be struck in aluminum. A true off metal would be something like a nickel die being used to strike coins being fed a (copper) cent planchet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVillageProwler Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Actually, I use the definition of ``off metal'' slightly differently than you. (I can't say that I'm right though.) There are a number of silver dollar pattern restrikes that were dated from the mid-1860's. They used regular Seated Dollar dies, but were struck on proper-sized planchets made not from the typical composition of silver:copper (9:1). I've often referred to them as off-metal, and had no confusion. Perhaps my audience was just being polite? EVP PS Who knows why I referred to those patterns as restrikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmarguli Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 I can't honestly say whether you are right or wrong. I've just always heard the term off-metal to indicate an error in the planchet. Any time the planchet was intentionally different than the normal, the ones I have seen have been referred based on their metal content (i.e. Seated Dollar, J1234, struck in copper) and not off-metal (SBA, off-metal error, struck on cent planchet). Maybe one of the NGC graders will see this and know the correct definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
