Super-Pretty Toner Cent with an Awesome Ragged Clip (great example of the blakesley effect)
airplanenut
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Who says Russ is the only one who can find the awesomely toned cents? 
I picked this one up for its great color, and the clip was also just so cool. (By the way, how would you grade it?)
Enjoy!
Full obverse:
The Clip on the Obverse
The Obverse Blakesley effect... check out the super-weak rim!
The reverse
The reverse showing more color
The Clip on the Reverse side
The Clip as seen on the rim
Jeremy
PS- If I were to sell, should I slab it as an error, or just sell it raw?
I picked this one up for its great color, and the clip was also just so cool. (By the way, how would you grade it?)
Enjoy!
Full obverse:
The Clip on the Obverse
The Obverse Blakesley effect... check out the super-weak rim!
The reverse
The reverse showing more color
The Clip on the Reverse side
The Clip as seen on the rim
Jeremy
PS- If I were to sell, should I slab it as an error, or just sell it raw?
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Aldous Huxley
Yabba dabba doo.
Fred Flintstone
<< <i>Airplanenut, the photos are superb, thanks for letting me share in your enjoyment of a rarity I would otherwise be unable to experience. >>
Thanks for the compliment. I just got a new 75W light, and instead of using a Reveal bulb for toning, I decided to use white light... I can't believe the color came out so well... since I cleaned off my desk, more lighting angles are available. Now I'll need to get out some more copper to see how it shoots.
Jeremy
Nice job on the photos!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
BTW MS 64.
Aldous Huxley
Yabba dabba doo.
Fred Flintstone
The effect is simple, really. Wherever a planchet is clipped, the die pressure is low because there is nothing for the dies to hit. As a result, 180* away from the clip (ie across from it) there is also less pressure to strike the coin, which will result in a soft strike opposite the clip. Notice how the rim across from the clip is kind of mushed up- that's the effect.
The effect's significance is in determining a genuine or fake clip. Only a real clip will show the weakness, so if you know what to look for, you won't be caught with an "error" made with some scissors.
Jeremy
Aldous Huxley
Yabba dabba doo.
Fred Flintstone
FOR SALE Items
Jeremy
However, the Blakesely effect is not because of the striking... if anything a well-struck coin can obscure the Blakesley effect.
Before coins are struck, they are up through a mill which upsets (raises) the rim to aid in striking.
When a coin has a clip, there is nothing for the mill to push on at the clipped area, which causes the area 180 degrees opposite of the clip to not be upset (raised). Hence on the resulting coin that area is lower.
With a very well-struck coin, the effect can be obscured because the metal flows into the rim area anyway.
Coin minting process info
<< <i>Jeremy nice pictures and a nice coin. For this photo did you use angled light or directly on the coin? >>
The light is angled... I think it was about 45* to the coin... these shots were just one light, as opposed to some shots having used two lights.
Jeremy
To reply to just the last bit of your original post - when and if you sell it, you should play up both the beautiful color and the error. There are folks out there who will only care about the toming, and there are others who will only care about the error. If you're lucky, you'll find some unhinged individual who will appreciate both the condition and the error as a package. I know such a collector exists, I see one every morning in the mirror when I'm shaving
Sean Reynolds
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