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Tapered planchets are typically associated with areas near the edge of the rolled copper sheet. A blank from too close to the edge can have thinning on one side, and when the coin is struck this shows up as a weak area usually somewhat crescent-shaped following the rim. If a blank is punched out overhanging the edge of the roll you end up with a straight clip, and the coin produced with be a normal incomplete planchet error. But on those occasions where you have a roll tapering near the edge, and the blank is punched over the edge, you get the double whammy, a planchet tapering to a straight clip. These aren't super rare, but pretty neat-looking. 195X Lincoln Wheat cent mint error - tapered planchet to straight clip 2.47g   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Excellent example, tropicalbats!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice one tropicalbats!  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Great example and really nice description of the error.
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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great looking cent TB |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Keep'em coming TB. You're on a roll.
"We are all flawed, some MD and some PMD." NYI |
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Nice example! |
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Valued Member
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Where the heck you gettin all these awesome coins...very nice!
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Thanks all for the great comments! Where do I get them? Well I buy collections of errors or varieties when they come for sale. A lot of the coins I have been posting recently came from a lot of over 600 error coins I bought from another CCF member. It will take me a long time to get through them all, but when I get a chance I pull out a box and start looking at them one at a time. I decide if it goes in my collection or gets sold off on ebay. Then I decide if it would be of interest to folks here for a posting. Sometimes if I'm making an ebay listing I'll post it here anyway since I have the photos already done. This particular coin is going in my collection, but others may show up on ebay this week as that's how I build my collection. I buy bulk, keep some that fit in with my collecting interests, and sell the rest off to recover most of my costs. Honestly I would put a bunch of them up here in the For Sale forum but I never really know what they are worth as error coins vary a lot by coin. So I just use 99 cent starting auctions and let the collectors decide. |
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 Well I for one appreciate all of your efforts. It's very inspirational in a hobby such as this! I am still searching a 20,000 (estimated) coin collection inherited from my father and grandfather before him, that hasn't seen the light of day in 50 years. I have found quite a few errors & varieties and I always keep my eyes open for the truly rare & odd ones! |
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