Does this planchet clip distract from this token or add a little value to it?

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• savoyspecial Posts: 7,310 ✭✭✭✭

  May 11, 2013 12:37PM

  to me it adds interest.....there is some irony in that being an apothecary weight, any missing mass (such as a clipped planchet) would affect the duty of measure

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• magikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭

  May 11, 2013 12:42PM

  I also think it adds interest. A little something extra.
  
  Irony? I thought it was copper/brass?
  
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• SoCalBigMark Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 11, 2013 1:18PM

  I don't think it ads to the value, so yeah, a minor distraction.

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• Icollecteverything Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭

  May 11, 2013 1:25PM

  I really don't know, but I don't think it's a big difference either way on a CWT, maybe a wash.
  
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• goodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 11, 2013 3:07PM

  I like it... but I'm biased. It's odd to me that the clip isn't mentioned on the tag.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 1:27AM

  On a coin, it would be interesting, on a token, not so much... and no value added (IMO)....Cheers, RickO

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,233 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 6:23AM

  i think it might add to it on a coin but not sure on a token. it might help some, why not. jmo

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,736 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 9:41AM

  
  
  << <i>to me it adds interest.....there is some irony in that being an apothecary weight, any missing mass (such as a clipped planchet) would affect the duty of measure >>
  
  
  
  I agree....the fact that the piece is supposed to be a weight makes the clip more interesting.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 9:46AM

  If your a error collector then it's neat...
  
  Now a token collector would most likely pass and wait for a non flawed example to surface.

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• seanq Posts: 8,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 12:52PM

  That particular token is not uncommon with a clip, in fact you could have had this one in a lower grade earlier tonight on eBay for a fraction of the coin linked in the OP.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
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• BillJones Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 12, 2013 10:22PM

  To me it is a minor distraction. I would not reject the piece out of hand, but if I had a choice between one with the clip and one without, I'd take the on without. BTW I have seen a number of examples of this variety with a clip, and as such I doubt that it weights "one dram."

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