Here's a good example of the Blakesley effect

gtstang

AUandAG

Yes, it is.

bob

ctf_error_coins

Indeed

Aspie_Rocco

Cool tread. I learned something new when I googled it and I was pleasantly surprised. A great diagnostic for verification. For those who don’t know, it’s a weakened rim opposite the clip.

ricko

Good educational post. Cheers, RickO

FredWeinberg

Yes - good example of it.

I feel very old sometimes, when I see
the name Blakesley - I'm probably one
of the very very few people still around
(alive!) that have met him and learned
about his 'Effect' directly from him,
when he showed this to members of The Error
Club Of Hollywood, in 1967, just before
he published in the NECA Errorscope
his research.

A kind, gentle soul - soft spoken, but very
intellectual in his approach to coins and
learning, and then teaching, about what
he found about incomplete punched planchets.

asheland

Great thread!

thisistheshow

Thank you for sharing this. I had never heard of that before.

Timbuk3

Great information, thanks for sharing !!!

BryceM

The names of very few of us will live on for any reason.

Lucky guy.

Namvet69

Dang, I've just been Blakesly-ed and I kinda like it. Peace Roy

Onastone

So I didn't know what the Blakesly effect was and googled it. Funny thing happened, this forum string popped up, 8'th on the list!!!!!

goodmoney4badmoney

Fred (or anyone else) do you know/remember Mr. Blakesley's first name?

Zoins

@FredWeinberg said:
Yes - good example of it.

I feel very old sometimes, when I see
the name Blakesley - I'm probably one
of the very very few people still around
(alive!) that have met him and learned
about his 'Effect' directly from him,
when he showed this to members of The Error
Club Of Hollywood, in 1967, just before
he published in the NECA
his research.

A kind, gentle soul - soft spoken, but very
intellectual in his approach to coins and
learning, and then teaching, about what
he found about incomplete punched planchets.

Very good history @FredWeinberg! It's wonderful that you knew him and learned about the effect from him!

Like @goodmoney4badmoney above, I'm wondering if you or anyone else recall his first name?

PerryHall

@Zoins said:

@FredWeinberg said:
Yes - good example of it.

I feel very old sometimes, when I see
the name Blakesley - I'm probably one
of the very very few people still around
(alive!) that have met him and learned
about his 'Effect' directly from him,
when he showed this to members of The Error
Club Of Hollywood, in 1967, just before
he published in the NECA
his research.

A kind, gentle soul - soft spoken, but very
intellectual in his approach to coins and
learning, and then teaching, about what
he found about incomplete punched planchets.

Very good history @FredWeinberg! It's wonderful that you knew him and learned about the effect from him!

Like @goodmoney4badmoney above, I'm wondering if you or anyone else recall his first name?

A quick web search shows his first name was Mickey. Not sure if this was a nickname but was the name he went by.

Zoins

@PerryHall said:

@Zoins said:

@FredWeinberg said:
Yes - good example of it.

I feel very old sometimes, when I see
the name Blakesley - I'm probably one
of the very very few people still around
(alive!) that have met him and learned
about his 'Effect' directly from him,
when he showed this to members of The Error
Club Of Hollywood, in 1967, just before
he published in the NECA
his research.

A kind, gentle soul - soft spoken, but very
intellectual in his approach to coins and
learning, and then teaching, about what
he found about incomplete punched planchets.

Very good history @FredWeinberg! It's wonderful that you knew him and learned about the effect from him!

Like @goodmoney4badmoney above, I'm wondering if you or anyone else recall his first name?

A quick web search shows his first name was Mickey. Not sure if this was a nickname but was the name he went by.

Good find. Using that name, I found the following CoinTalk thread which indicates someone claiming to be a relative to his said his name was Mickey, but @FredWeinberg indicated he heard a different name:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/who-exactly-was-blakesley-thats-known-for-the-blakesley-effect.382242/

In that thread, Joseph P. Cronin was doing some research for an article for CONECA. Anyone if this article was published?

Joe Cronin said:
OK. I got word from the relative that "Mickey" was Mr. Blakesley's nickname. I have his real name, where he was from, etc., that was confirmed with a bit more proof. People who met him have confirmed that photo above is him, and that was his membership number for NECA, in addition to that being a good address that he used.

Looks like this is the real deal, and I am going to be writing an article for CONECA about him.

Fred's response is excerpted below:

@FredWeinberg said:
No, "Mickey" is not the name I heard 5+ decades ago - but if you're sure someone from his family said it was his Nickname, I can't say it wasn't - just that that word was never used at any of the two diff. club meetings over numerous years.

I don't recall that Borrego Springs adresss, but I think that's a bit North, and inland, from the La Jolla area I mentioned previously.

Hope this helps a bit....

Fred