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.
![]() Error 1964 Double Clip Nickel US $10.00
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![]() 1795 Liberty Cap Large Cent Good Ag Double Planchet Clip Error US $199.99
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![]() 1835 Lm10 Half Dime Orig Au Clip Error Estatesale US $450.00
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![]() Error Coin 1965p Curved Clip $25 Us Quarter US $9.95
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![]() Error2000d State Quarter Sc Large Clip US $55.00
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![]() Error2000d State Quarter Ma Large Clip US $55.00
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![]() 1919 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 27 US $9.99
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![]() 1946 S Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 26 US $9.99
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![]() 1930 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Super Rare Coin 28 US $9.99
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![]() 2 Coin 1989 P 1989 D Washington Quarter Clip Error Coin Rare 9 US $13.50
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![]() 19 Lincoln Wheat Penny Clip Error Rare Coin 23 US $12.99
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![]() 1964 Jefferson Nickel Clip Error Rare Coin 29 US $9.99
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![]() 1905 Ngc Mint Error Au58 Bn Curved Clip Indian Head Cent Penny E842 US $299.00
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![]() Clip Coin Error 1965p Quarter $25 US $6.95
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![]() Clip Coin Error 1967 Quarter $25 US $4.95
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![]() Clip Coin Error 1974p Quarter $25 US $9.95
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![]() Us 1941 Lincoln Wheat Cent Clipped Planchet Error Clip Vf US $8.46
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![]() 1938 D Mint Error Planchet Clip 600 Walking Liberty Half Dollar 50c Key Date US $99.99
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