Clip Error Coins
Anyone trying to squeeze one more holiday cookie out of a thinly stretched batch of dough knows exactly what a clip-error is. Clip errors occur in coinage when planchets, the discs that become coins, are somehow cut too close together, taking a nick, slice, or even a big bite out of a coin.
It is easy to imagine the broad margin for errors of many kinds that existed when coins were made by hand. Metal was melted to a malleable state, rolled thin, and cut in strips before being stamped out in discs. Discs (planchets, also called flans) were then placed on the anvil, struck on one side and then the other. Being able to strike both sides at once was a true innovation in early coin-making, but required a sure hand and a sure eye, over and over and over. Ancient coins show the stresses of this manufacture (remember that manu-facture translates from its Latin roots as "making by hand") in off-center strikes, uneven impressions, ragged edges and clip-errors. Making money was both a respected art and an exhausting craft.
Clip-errors are rarer in modern machine-made coins and are therefore treasured by collectors, perhaps as a reminder that even machines can make mistakes.
 1944 Lincoln Cent Elliptical Clip Error Ms 63 Red Brown  US $150.00
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 Error 1958 D Lincoln Cent Double Clip US $22.99
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 Error 1971 D Double Clip Anacs Au 58 US $130.00
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 Error 2003 Bu Cent With Large Straight Clip US $67.50
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 1961 Lincoln Cent Curved Clip Error Bright Au Condition US $10.00
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 1944 Lincoln Cent Error Clip Corroded Graded Ms 60 US $35.99 |
 1940 Lincoln Cent Error Clip Graded Ms 61 Bn US $39.99 |
 1980 Elizabeth Small Cent Canada Penny Clip Error US $10.00
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 1967 Elizabeth Small Cent Canada Penny Clip Error US $10.00
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 1981 Elizabeth Small Cent Canada Penny Clip Error US $7.50
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 1964 Kennedy Half Dollarclip Error Cj448 US $24.95
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 Ngc Peace Curved Clip Morgan 1922p Ngc Ms 64 Mint Error US $144.00
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 1972 D Pcgs Ms62 5 Double Clip Planchet Ike Error Nice US $190.00
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 1945 P War Nickel W Clip Neat Affordable Error Coin US $17.00
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 Italy 1940 50 Centesimi Error Coin Clip US $6.99
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 1943 P Lincoln Steel Cent Error Clip W Blakesly Effect US $55.00
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 1989 P Jefferson Nickel Error Double Clip Pcgs Ms 63 US $189.99
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 Error Clip 1875 Love Token Seated Sil Dime Initials Cio US $24.50
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 Error Curved Clip 1970 D Washington Quarter 25 Cent US $15.50
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 1999 D Nickel Error Off Center With Clip Bu US $49.99
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 2000 P Dollar Error 13 Straight Clip US $149.99
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 2000 D Massachusetts Quarter Error Big Straight Clip US $79.99
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 2000 P Maryland Quarter Error Large Straight Clip US $74.99
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 1921 Morgan Dollar Anacs Ms62 Mint Error Rim Clip US $129.00
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 1968d Washington Quarter Error Lg Clip K12 2 Blakesly US $18.50
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 Errorike Dollar W Small Clip 1971 D Au Unc US $32.50
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 Europa Ecu Pattern Error 2 Ecu Uk 1992 Very Lg Clip US $130.00
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 Europa Ecu Pattern Error Uk 1 Ecu Large Clip Gem Bu US $120.00
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 Error Gem 2000 P Ngc Ms65 5 Straight Clip Maryland 25c US $85.00
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 Error Trade Token Byer Efinger Cigars Curved Clip US $11.99
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 Double Clip Error 1982 Lincoln Cent Penny Copper Coin US $18.50
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 $1 John Adams Missing Edge Letterg Clip Ste Error US $795.00
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 Error 1999 Cent W Large Straight Clip US $42.50
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