Lamination

[Steven]

Strange looking lamination. Looks to have been folded two or three times then struck through a part of it that maybe fell off.

[Bob P]

Definitely a folded lamination Steven, but I wouldn't say it was struck after the lamination developed. Lamination peels have the design firmly struck into them, When I piece falls off, the image is still below it, but becomes much more mushy in appearance. Of course, I could be wrong, but I don't think so in this case. The lamination most likely lifted, and with regular use, it became folded and mashed down and is still in place because a portion is still connected to the layer.

[murphy]

I LOVE lamination errors.

[Bob P]

They are definitely fun Murph. I love collecting them also. Here are a few of the nicer ones I have:

[coop]

A whole of of U G L Y going on!!

One I had ready but never posted yet. Just waiting for the right time and that is now.

[murphy]

Coop, your coin is not ugly, it's beautiful! If you want to get rid of it, throw it my way.

Y'all got some good ones. I'm surprised that I haven't found more than the one. I guess y'all found them all.

[Bob P]

Murph,
I have found well over a hundred or so over the years. I keep the really interesting ones of which I have saved about 30 -40 of them. All the others go back in the rolls/bags. You won't find as many of them in the more modern coinage. The 1940s seemed like the best years for the laminations.

[coop]

I think why there are less of them now is simple. The older ones were made with copper planchets with material loosened or scraped off other planchets. Others were a bad mix of copper and seperated. So today you have zinc planchets covered with copper plating. No extra material there or no bad mixes available now to creat this type of errors. Just the bad rinsing before the copper plating that gives the modern day Cents a problem. You see the ocassional scrap plating from time to time that gets onto letters. Just not the seperation from back then. Of course the new Cents also have the pot hole in them.

[Steven]

Does this (1924D?) look bad or what. I guess it is a lamination problem. Maybe some kind of acid bath?

[murphy]

Steven, that one looks ruff. Looks like a severely peeled planchet lamination and damage from the ground or maybe like you said, acid.