Is 3 Clips Enough?

Here's a nice coin with 3-clips. No, I didn't make it but the mint did. ANACS graded MS-64. A 2016-P Shawnee, Illinois Quarter.

 

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Not really clips. Incomplete in 3 areas..
Nice one. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh and here are mine

 

I just went with what's on the slab label.

 

Nice 3-clip errors. Here is my SBA dollar with 3 clips.

 

error coins

 

Just so everyone understands, the correct term is an incomplete planchet but then most people, including some of the TPG's, would be lost if we didn't say Clipped or Clips.

 

On the second slab I showed it's also an Error Label.
It states - Triple Curvved Clips

My new error came in.. Thread this evening or tomorrow

 

I can't wait!

 

What I don't understand about these is how they can occur. A single curved clip I can see. Two curved clips I can see, two curved and one straight clip I can believe. But I can't visualize anyway to create a planchet with three curved clips. Well one way but it makes no sense. Punch out a row of blanks, advance the strip a little less than the diameter of the blanks and punch a row, then BACK UP the strip and punch a row from the area between the two previously punched rows. But the idea of backing the strip up in the press seems a bit absurd to me. Yes you might be able to do that if your were working with short strips of metal, but they are working with strips hundreds of feet long.

 

Here ya go! Look at the gray areas..


I think it usually occurs near the end of the sheet.

Maybe @Fred Weinberg might shed some light on the subject?

 

Good Mornin' -

That diagram above shows how they can occur.

That diagram is based on (similar to) one made up
back in the late '60's by Blakesley to illustrate the
research he had done on incomplete planchets, and
the weakness opposite the clip - Blakesely was the first
person who studied and explained that weakness, and
other insights into incomplete planchets, aka: Clips.

He lived in La Jolla Calif., and would drive up, almost
every month, for the Error Club Of Hollywood meetings;
I learned a lot from the club meetings, especially about
the Minting Process from Mort Goodman himself, and
Blakesely - they would give presentations at the club
meetings, etc.

ECOH was started in the fall of 1967, and I attended
every meeting.

 

They are rare so to speak but it does happen. It's always been explained to me that it's the way the sheet advances and that it happens near the end of the sheet. That's for the diagram. @paddyman98

 

Thanks for the diagram paddyman, it helped me a lot. Thanks for the post Collecting Nut, very informative.

 

Is that two curved and a straight clip?

 

All seem curved to me.

@happy_collector
Can we see the label?

 

Sure. Here it is.

 

Agree with paddyman. All the clips look curved.

 

Nice sir! Good morning all...

 

Thank you. Glad you like it.

 

You’re welcome sir. I like all of them you posted . I also have an idea incase I see something like that if I check my rolls. Thank you for sharing have a good one mwah ...