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New Member
Canada
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I found this roll hunting a few years ago and I'm looking for second opinions. I showed it to a local coin person with much more knowledge than I and he's of the opinion this is a homemade clip job based on the marks/dents around the rim that to him were evidence of some clamping device.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Clip job, no blakesley effect that is apparent
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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beautiful example of a triple clipped coin with an amazing example of a blakesley effect...don't always rely on dealers with errors..many of them are not familiar enough with them to give accurate answers.  Feel free to call me Will.
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Moderator
 Canada
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That is most certainly a genuine error, and beautiful one at that!! As the post above shows, it is a really nice clip, with two additional rim clips.  to CCF by the way, we are here to help when your local coin guys cannot!! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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also, you have a beautiful example of the rims tapering towards the rim, this is a tell tail sing of a real clip and is pretty much impossible to recreate on a fake one.  Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Awesome triple clip!! Blakesly and all!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2187 Posts |
wow that triple clip is something special! very nice find
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
581 Posts |
I shall insert my foot in my mouth! Congrats on a nice find
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One other diagnostic that is impossible to replicate is the die flow present on devices closest to the clip, sometimes referred to as "fishtailing" due to the distinctive v-shaped distortion. "Fishtailing" is also sometimes seen on coins struck in an open collar, Maria Theresa Thalers are probably the most common example.  When a coin is struck with no collar in place, the die flow/radial expansion of the planchet is greater than on a coin struck in a collar. On the subject coin, it is most visible on ABE of ELIZABETH. For a stronger example, see STATES on the V nickel shown below-  Edited by biokemist6
11/08/2016 4:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1046 Posts |
very educational thread
thank you
great find(imo)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
870 Posts |
Wow! Very nice triple clip in a hard year to find one!
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New Member
 Canada
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Thanks all for your responses...I think it's safe to say it's a keeper! Are there "goto" websites that detail the minting process and how errors get produced? I found the info at http://www.coinscan.com/index.html to be pretty educational but some of the photos look pretty dated which made me wonder if the process is top secret stuff? I want to get more educated so I can be more efficient on my roll hunts...I shudder to think what I've missed in all my past years when all I was looking for was silver, specific years or more recently some of the colored ones (I only roll hunt quarters...gotta draw the line somewhere :) ) This website and the collective knowledge within has sparked my interest in errors and varieties...Thanks again! Edited by braat
11/10/2016 12:24 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I don't know about websites, but there have been some very good books on error coins published by American authors. Most of the minting processes used in the US are generally applicable to Canadian & world coins.
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Posted 11/08/2016 12:20 pm
