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.

1965 Lincoln Penny Coin Bottom Left Clip Error G Vg    US $19.99

1940 Ngc Mint Error Ms 63 Bn Curved Clip 1100 Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia30    US $155.75

194x Ngc Mint Error Ms 66 Rb Straight Clip Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia28    US $79.21

1912 Ngc Mint Error Au 58 Bn Straight Clip 700 Lincoln Cent 1c Ia17    US $105.91

1925 Ngc Mint Error Ms 63 Rb Curved Clip 630 Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia26    US $152.10

1943 S Ngc Mint Error Ms 65 Straight Clip Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia36    US $177.11

1906 Ngc Mint Error Ms 63 Rb Planchet Clip630 Indian Head Cent 1c Ia6    US $168.21

1919 Ngc Mint Error Ms 64 Rd 5 Ragged Clip Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia23    US $269.10

1981 D Ngc Mint Error Ms 63 Rb 15 Curved Clip Lincoln Cent 1c Ia46    US $79.21

1866 Ngc Mint Error Xf 40 Curved Clip 600 Nickel Three Cent Piece 3cn Ia57    US $134.10

1941 S Ngc Mint Error Ms 64 Rb Curved Clip 1200 Lincoln Wheat Cent 1c Ia32    US $88.11

1917 Standing Liberty Quarter Type 1 Clip Mint Error Bl276    US $59.00

Error 1964 Double Clip Nickel    US $10.00

1795 Liberty Cap Large Cent Good Ag Double Planchet Clip Error    US $199.99

1835 Lm10 Half Dime Orig Au Clip Error Estatesale    US $450.00

Error Coin 1965p Curved Clip $25 Us Quarter    US $9.95

Error2000d State Quarter Sc Large Clip    US $55.00

Error2000d State Quarter Ma Large Clip    US $55.00

Russia Ussr 1 Rouble 1991 Navoi Error Small Clip Unc Ru117    US $8.00

Super Clip 1968 D Anacs Ms64 Straight Clip Roosevelt Us Mint Error    US $59.00

Us 1979 P Susan B Anthony Dollar Clipped Planchet Clip Mint Error Unc    US $50.96

1919 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 27    US $9.99

1946 S Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 26    US $9.99

1930 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 28    US $9.99

2 Coin 1989 P 1989 D Washington Quarter Clip Error Coin Rare 9    US $13.50

19 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Rare Coin 23    US $12.99

1964 Jefferson Nickel Clip Error Rare Coin 29    US $9.99

1905 Ngc Mint Error Au58 Bn Curved Clip Indian Head Cent Penny E842    US $299.00

Clip Coin Error 1965p Quarter $25    US $6.95

Clip Coin Error 1967 Quarter $25    US $4.95

Clip Coin Error 1974p Quarter $25    US $9.95

Us 1941 Lincoln Wheat Cent Clipped Planchet Error Clip Vf    US $8.46

1938 D Mint Error Planchet Clip 600 Walking Liberty Half Dollar 50c Key Date    US $99.99