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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?

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?

What is a "flan flaw"?

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.

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

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!