CANADIAN ERROR COINS - CANADIAN WRONG PLANCHET STRIKES

WRONG DENOMINATIONS

Wrong denominations are coins struck on planchets intended for a different denomination.

            This category of wrong planchet strikes is still the most common. As a rule, only planchets equal or smaller than the intended planchets may be fed into coining presses and struck as coins. For example, it is unlikely for a twenty-five cents size planchet to be accidentally fed into a coining press and struck by dies set-up to strike ten cents size planchets. Within the limitations provided by this rule, there can only be sixteen possible combinations. The sixteenth possibility is a relatively new addition. Since the release of the reduced size circulating one dollar coin (The loon), it is now possible for a planchet intended for a loon one dollar coin, to be struck by fifty cents dies.

One Cent on a Ten Cents planchet. Twenty-five Cents on a Ten Cent planchet.
Five Cents on a One Cent planchet. Twenty-five Cents on a One Cent planchet.

Canadian Wrong Denominations Strike Trends
  1˘ 5˘ 10˘ (S) 10˘ (N)  25˘ (S) 25˘ (N)  50˘ (N) $1 Loon
1˘ NA NA $300 $150 NA NA NA NA
5˘

$300

 NA $500 $100 NA NA NA NA
25˘ $400 $75 $300 $100 NA NA NA NA
50˘ $1,000 $800 $1,500 $1,200 $1,250 $1,000 NA

$1,000
$1 $2,500 $1,500 $2,000 $1,500 $1,500 $1,200 $1,500 NA
$2 $3,000 $2,000

NA

$2,000

NA

$2,000 $2,250 $2,500

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