Would you pay this much for this error? I did!
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I normally stick to certified coins, but this Ike looked so smooth (65-66 maybe?) I was willing to go $45 for it.
Got this one as well, much cheapter.
Got this one as well, much cheapter.
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The `78 clip is sorta obscured by the glare of the mylar. I totally missed that at first.
Very cool stuff. WTG, and,,,,,you suck.
On the first one (the 78-D) I don't see any distortion of the design by the clip, nor any Blakesley effect opposite the clip. How does it look in real life?
If it is legit, that's a great deal. Big Ike clips (or really, any dramatic Ike error) are tough. I've paid more than that for a much smaller clip.
They are both legit. The Blakesley effect is visible between the R and T of Liberty, or at least it looks that way to me.
Nice coins Brian.
Richard.
Did you catch the Type 1 triple clip that sold for $91? I thought it was a type 1 from the auction picture, and e-mailed for a better picture. Clearly type 1 when the photos arrived.... but I didn't get home in time to bid. Not sure I would have gone $91 for a triple clip PCGS MS61. 1972 T1 Triple Clip MS61
I don't think being a Type 1 wouldn't have any effect on value... both Type 1 and Type 3 were minted in the many millions. A Type 2 clip, though, that'd be cool.
That big a clip would have to have blakesley effect easily seen, as well as metal flow distortion around it.
The 72 looks legit to me.
Ya know, I own a machine shop. I work hard to make a meager living.
All I'd have to do is relax my morals for a bit.....................
Ray
of the rim where the clip occurs will have a certain looking deformity.
We can see on the `72 Ike that the rim area where the clip is is seemingly `unstruck` or without the proper
rim height all the way to the clipped area.
Not like what a coin might look like if one were to take a whole coin and just clip it off after the normal coin was normally
struck. That way the rim height would be normal all the way right up to the clipped off area.
A coin blank goes through an upset mill, where it is transformed from a flat disc to one with upset rims, like this:
This is done to aid striking, particularly of the rims.
Because of the way the mill works, when a coin blank has a clip on it, the mill has nothing to push against at that point and so the rim opposite the clip is not upset as normal.
After the coin is struck, this often shows up as strike weakness and lack of rim opposite the clip.
Note that while the existence of Blakesley effect is a very good indication of a genuine clip, the lack of that effect does not automatically mean it's a fake. If the coin is particularly well-struck, the rims may be complete regardless of whether the blank was properly upset before striking.