Blank planchet 5 Euro Cents

Descrizione del dritto	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.
Scrittura del dritto	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Legenda del dritto	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Descrizione del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Scrittura del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Legenda del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Bordo	Plain
Zecca	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Tiratura	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Informazioni aggiuntive	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.