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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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The off centers may be real errors, the clip is not.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
08/28/2021 1:16 pm
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Valued Member
 Canada
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I thought that clip looked too small to be genuine.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The clip is just something that someone did. The diameter of the missing piece is much smaller than the planchet would be, when cut from the sheet. The Lincoln cents look all right, but I'm not an error person.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 The off center cents look good, but the clip is not genuine. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes, the off-center cents look legit, questionable clip (small) on the IHC. |
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 United States
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I'd have to agree that the off-center are legit. And that "clip" is a clip alright but not by the mint or any process that is done by the mint. The diameter look to be the same size as a paper hole punch tool.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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The fake clip has been reported.
Hopefully it will be removed tomorrow.
Thanks for pointing it out mgalb.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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It is possible to make an incuse hub off a real coin in a shed job, but it is hard to do under these conditions, but with simple machine shop skills, can be done.
A book titled 'Numismatic Forgery' by Charles M. Larson, (ISBN 0-9742371-2-4) shows how this can be done,
and some background in how to identify very deceiving numismatic forgeries that are characterized by their method of manufacture.
Having made the above comments the coins in the link appear to be genuine but must be closely examined in hand to be sure.
Clip fakes are easier to forge. Look for the Blakesley Effect, but note this can be faked as well.
Wild off center strikes by from the US Mint during this period (around 1972) are not all that rare. I had a coin dealer friend (Bob Roberts) who used to visit the 'States for business several times during the 1980's, and he bought quite a few similar errors for his inventory, and sold them for $20 each to his Australian customers through his sales brochures. Bob was a contributor and authenticator to earlier editions of Krause World Coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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The "clip" coin was removed by ebay |
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Posted 08/28/2021 1:27 pm
