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Blank planchet 5 Euro Cents
| Issuer | European Central Bank (ECB) |
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| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse face of the unstruck copper-plated steel planchet, entirely devoid of any design, legend, or device. The field is uniformly smooth and unbroken, retaining the natural surface texture imparted during the rolling and blanking stages of planchet manufacture. The peripheral rim is slightly raised from the upsetting process, consistent with standard Euro cent planchet preparation. No distinguishing features are present to differentiate the reverse from the obverse. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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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.