Do clips on Civil War tokens or Store Cards add value or subtract?

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• BillJones Posts: 35,740 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2014 7:48AM

  Quite a number of the Wisconsin CWTs that were made from John Marr (A very talented Milwaukee, Wisconsin die sinker) dies seem to come with planchet clips. From what I've seen the effect on the price is usually neutral, at least for pieces that are not graded Gem Unc. MS-65. For those tokens it might be a negative since collectors who want those pieces often expect perfection.
  
  I suppose if you found with a really big clip that took a lot of the design, it would be of interest to the CWT error collectors. Since I don't fall into that group, I would view it as a negative.
  

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• ebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭

  January 25, 2014 9:47AM

  ill second bill, unless its a very high grade, of a really scarce token, those of us that collect them don't mind a clip, but wont pay a premium because they aren't anywhere near as scarce as clipped "regular issue" coins

  regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything

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• seanq Posts: 8,815 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2014 11:25AM

  Coming at this from an error collector's perspecitve, I love clipped CWTs but they are quite common, so I generally try not to pay a premium for the error unless it is a certain design or type I desire (such as an Indiana primitive). The same goes for repunching, there are so many die errors on CWTs (that I also love to collect) that there's no reason to pay a big premium for them.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
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