Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat disk of metal ready for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- noun A small shallow metal container in which a radioactive substance is deposited for measurement of its activity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flat piece of metal intended to receive a die-impression for a coin; a coin-blank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A flat
disk ofmetal used as ablank forstamping acoin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Weight: 1793-1795, ±13. 48 grams; 1795-1796 thin planchet, ±10. 89 grams
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Designer: Joseph Wright (thick planchet, 1793-1795, prepared by Robert Scot; thin planchet, 1795-1796, prepared by John Smith Gardner)
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If the dies are new or relatively new, a stronger impression may be made into the planchet, which is prepared blank disk that is transformed into a coin by a mechanical press.
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[Most of us reveal such a tendency whenever we handle a "ouija-board" or a "planchet," or let ourselves write automatically with a pencil.]
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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My therory is that the planchet was on the floor and a worker picked it up and threw it in the proof bucket not thinking i quess, with floor residue and finger print i think this may be a logical explaination.
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The motifs are fairly well centered on the planchet, and about three-fourths of the dentilation shows.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News 2009
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When brought down in the screw press it unevenly impressed the planchet.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News 2009
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The high portion of the left side of the die, the fields, could not properly smooth the natural roughness of a raw planchet.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News 2009
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· 1795 Flowing Hair, Three Leaves, B-7 extremely fine-Original & natural, but with a chip out of edge that appears to a planchet flaw.
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The high portion of the left side of the die, the fields, could not properly smooth the natural roughness of a raw planchet.
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News 2009
chained_bear commented on the word planchet
Oh wow. I loved her in "Elizabeth."
April 21, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word planchet
I have a story about code switching. I'll write it here, one day.
April 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word planchet
Also planchlet.
February 21, 2011