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Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby thecrazyone » Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:05 am

I am looking at one that was graded with this flaw. It looks like it's just because the coin was cast off center. Should I avoid it?
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Re: Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby highroller4321 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:36 pm

thecrazyone wrote:I am looking at one that was graded with this flaw. It looks like it's just because the coin was cast off center. Should I avoid it?



Can you post a picture?
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Re: Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby TXSTARFIRE » Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:37 pm

What is a "flan flaw"?
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Re: Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby thecrazyone » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:39 pm

highroller4321 wrote:
thecrazyone wrote:I am looking at one that was graded with this flaw. It looks like it's just because the coin was cast off center. Should I avoid it?



Can you post a picture?


I actually saw quite a few on eBay, if you search you will see them out there, both graded and ungraded.
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Re: Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby thecrazyone » Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:40 pm

TXSTARFIRE wrote:What is a "flan flaw"?

It's when a coin has a deep crack that could result in it breaking.

https://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/grading/flan.htm
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Re: Would you buy a flan flaw coin?

Postby TXSTARFIRE » Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:43 am

That is interesting. Thanks for the reference. So a flan is basically a planchet. A flan flaw would be the same thing as a planchet flaw. I added a new word to my vocabulary on the first day of 2021!
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