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Opinions on this Clipped Liberty Nickel

MJHMJH Posts: 538 ✭✭
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pics of clip.

You can see the top of the S in states and the O in of on the reverse.

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No good, it looks like it was pressed against a grinding wheel. The fact that the design is visible down into the thin area is the key; on a planchet that heavily tapered there should not be any evidence of a strike at all.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Post-mint damage, sorry. If you hold it up to another nickel, I think you'll find that it's out-of-round...
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh man, I just realized that is a 1912-S. I'm doubly sorry to deliver the bad news now. What a shame....


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OY!
    But I agree, post mint damage.
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    Definitely a shame about it being a 12-S...has a full Liberty and everything. OUCH!
    Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There where a bunch of Lib's in 2006 on ebay sold not as clipped but struck on a rolled thin planchet error.

    Guess that 12-s was abused by a non-numismatist. image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    not a clip, just damage

    K S
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Bummer
  • UTTM07UTTM07 Posts: 313 ✭✭
    No, it's a 1913-S!

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