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New Member
 United States
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Yeah, I'd be VERY happy to get $100+ for it, if I decide to sell it. I'm still not sure I want to, because it's a really neat thing to have in my collection. I saw that listing on ebay, I wasn't sure if their asking price was reasonable or not - also I have no idea how long it's been listed at that price, and I wasn't sure how much more mine would bring in in comparison (being a State Quarter with only minor bending of the loose cladding, instead of what is on that auction). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't collect these types of errors. I am more of a variety collector. You can ask any price you want to on ebay. The selling price of a coin is a better sign of what it is worth. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The term for this error is "clamshell separation". It is not a "lamination error" or a "clamshell split". Both of the latter are effectively restricted to solid-alloy coins.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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New Member
United States
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Hmm, alright. I keep hearing different names for this coin style, haha - it's pretty tough to find any information on coins like mine, just because everybody seems to call them something different.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Mike is the expert. He is very technical in the correct terms he uses. So don't doubt him.
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New Member
United States
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Oh no I wasn't trying to doubt anyone in particular, I just had a few terms thrown at me in this thread (and elsewhere) for this thing, so it's good to know the actual term. Thanks for the article too.
I think I'll probably keep it in my collection since I guess they seem to be relatively hard to find/uncommon (and also since I guess it probably isn't worth anything major - though up until this point I thought it was just a worthless oddity that I thought was pretty neat).
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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How did you do that, with a can opener? That coin is nuts!
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New Member
United States
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Haha, nope - like I said, just came out of my register at work, I traded a regular quarter I had in my pocket for it, and then it sat on my desk for a year or two before I made this post because I wanted to figure out what it was.
I've gotten a lot of information here but I'm having a ridiculously hard time finding ANY information on prior sales/values of coins like this - I don't know if that means it's THAT rare of a find, or if it's just something that's not very noteworthy, or what. Googling "clamshell separation" leads me only to maybe four or five other forum posts about kind of similar coins (though they have different split locations), as well as a few posts by Mike Diamond.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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New Member
United States
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I see.. well that helps confirm it's worth more to me in my coin box than it is in my wallet! Thanks a bunch.
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