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Blank planchet 5 Euro Cents
| Issuer | European Central Bank (ECB) |
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| Value | 5 Cents |
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| Obverse description | Blank unstruck planchet, copper-plated steel disc exhibiting a smooth, featureless field on both faces. The surface displays the characteristic warm reddish-brown copper tone of the plating, with slight die-upset rim formation visible at the periphery. No devices, legends, or design elements are present, as the planchet has not been subjected to the striking process. The rim shows the typical rounded profile resulting from the upsetting mill used in planchet preparation. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Blank planchets escaping mint facilities is not unusual — quality control failures, employee theft, and end-of-run sweepings have fed collector markets for decades. For euro-area cent denominations, copper-plated steel replaced the originally planned copper-plated copper composition after raw material cost projections made the latter unviable for high-volume production in the late 1990s. The steel core is detectable with a magnet, which also made these planchets easier to sort mechanically during preparation.