PART V. Planchet Errors:

Bonding / Bonding Mill Errors:

Struck Clad Layer:

Split Off After Strike

Definition: A clad layer will sometimes separate from a coin after the strike.  The detached clad layer will show a normal die-struck design on its outer face, and blurred incuse, mirror-image version of the same design on its inner face.

As a practical matter, it is almost impossible to distinguish this error type from clad layers that are struck together with a normal planchet.

An undated clad layer from a Roosevelt dime is shown below. It may have separated after the strike or it may have been fed into the striking chamber beneath a normal planchet.