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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I am looking through mobile and your pics are quite dark, so I can't see the obverse well enough. From what I can see on the reverse around the clip, it looks okay. The rim dovetails like a real one should.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Weakness in the strike in that area fits too
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Pillar of the Community
United States
740 Posts |
Similar clip position, uruman's was a double clip though. Also, just so that you are aware: the planchets are cut and rimmed so the position they are cut has no relation to how it is struck. I see slight blakesley. To get more confirmation try to take another close picture with a little more light on the letters near the clip. You should see the flow of the metal on the letters heading towards the clip
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
doesn't look right to me, I'm not seeing any blakesley effect, at least not as much as should show with the size of the clip
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
Looks good to me! You have a winner, IMHO
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Valued Member
 United States
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
even with the new pics I'm not seeing the blakesely effect. looks to me like the coin took a hit where the effect should show. also the clip looks to be PMD to me, there is too much raggedness to it and I'm seeing collateral damage to the E and R in liberty. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The Blakesley effect can be subtle or not there at all. flyank, when you look at the rim inside the clipped part, what does it look like?
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
looks pretty smooth to me... id say its a clip
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congrats, looks to be a real clip, just alot of circulation wear.  |
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Looks genuine to me, but with a bit of skill and practice, it is possible to reproduce the Blakesley effect in a back yard 'shed job'.
I have to admit: I can't pick the excellent fakes of this type, even when examining the coin in hand.
I have seen a few so called genuine clip errors of this type, and examined them carefully under a 10x loupe with the consideration they they could be fake. I came to the conclusion that I could not completely rule out the possibility that they could be fake.
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Valued Member
United States
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To me this appears to be a small clip, and if I were attempting to "fake it" I'd probably try my hand at a bigger clip....which lends me to believe this is in fact genuine, showing the expected wear of the poor thing being in 50 years of circulation with no one caring until one day last week at my grocer it decided to enter my hand and say......"shouldn't I be noticed too?" haha......glad the coin has had its 15 minutes of fame with all of this wonderful Forum's honorable opinions and mentions. The coin says "Thank You!" as do I. :)
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