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planchet

NOUN
  1. a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin

How To Use planchet In A Sentence

  • [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
  • 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
  • When brought down in the screw press it unevenly impressed the planchet. Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News
  • I'll be hanged if I can associate psychics with a biceps like Berber's; somehow those things seem the special prerogative of anemic women in white cheese-cloth fooling with 'planchette' and 'currents.' The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Some years ago, when the "planchette" first came out, I remember that it acquired quite a reputation as a particularly erratic piece of mechanism, but for real mystery and _innate cussedness_, on general principles, commend me to the indicator. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • Wide-eyed and goosebumped, my sister and I looked at each other and then promptly accused one another of pushing the planchette from letter to letter. Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games
  • An atmosphere of levity does not conduce to the best operation of Planchette. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
  • A certain befitting gravity should grace the occasion," Chris agreed, placing his hand on Planchette. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
  • In some sense, therefore, the device allows the cursor to be a planchette in a virtual Ouija board effect.
  • Errors include edge clips, coins struck on foreign planchet, flip over double strikes, and filled dies etc.
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