2008 John Q Adams clipped planchet and "god" error

I found this coin last week and it's gotten me started into collecting - especially with interest in error coins. I think it's pretty cool anyway, and since I got it for free - hey either way I've won right? :thumb:

 

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That's really very nifty. How and where did you find that?

I guess I'm wondering if it was new in a new roll.

 

Didn't you post this same thing in a different thread?

 

yea sorry about the double post, but that was just trying to get a value estimation:
update: just took it to an NGC certified coin dealer here in Atlanta and he said it has a 6% clip and offered me $160
I got coin holder from him instead
Oh BTW: I received it as payment at a garage sale from a woman who paid with a bunch presidential dollar coins out of a bank envelope. The chunk missing caught my eye and not even thinking I asked her if she'd part with it. She gave it to me for helping her load up the items she had purchased.

 

Great find!!!

 

nice piece.

but...

strange that there is no Blakesley effect.

 

I have only ever seen one other Prez dollar that was clipped and it was a double clip, Potter was photographing it for an upcoming article in Coin World. That is the man you should contact regarding this piece. His website is http://koinpro.tripod.com/

He will be able to give you a definitive answer on this.

I don't see the blakesly effect either Frank. I do noticed that the edge has some missing letters and that could be an effect from the clip. If the lettering is direct opposite of the clip the edge machine would not have the reverse pressure needed to apply the edge lettering.

 

I see a clear blakesly effect on both sides, Definitely a good clip.

 

Matt:
With that size clip, I would have expected to see a good (read: strong) effect.

 

From my experience the blakesly effect is a good indicator but not the rule. I have seen large clips with very slight blakesly effect. I also think that the angle that these pictures is being taken from is also distorting the look.

 

What exactly is that?

 

Here is a good description with pictures

http://www.triton.vg/clip.html

 

Thank you for that info guys, I just learned something new. Don't put you hand in the rimming machine, right. Wait that's not it! Damn it I forgot it now Now I have to read it all over again. As for the $160 offer, good job not grabbing it in these times. Hold on that sucker.

 

Thanks for all the post everybody! I actually already sent mr. potter an email - in my research I noticed he had written an article about a presidential dollar error coin. He congratulated me on the find and basically said it all looked legit. EDITED I'll probably end up auctioning it at some point though. $ is tight these days and a few hundred dollars would pay some bills. I guess I'm waiting for the person who thinks the whole "GOD" ommission is the. . . bees knees.(trying to stick to that old time TV rule) Anyway, thanks again everyone!

 

one last thing,
The dealer I talked to suggested getting some chemically pure acetone and using a q-tip to wipe the faces to removes some finger prints already on the coin. Any suggestions? I had heard very unhappy things about cleaning coins. . .

 

Wow I thought it was fake at first because each coin is manually fed into the lettering maching. But I see the distortion and the other missing edge letters directly across from the clip, so it's almost certainly real. Someone at the mint just wasn't paying attention. Awesome find.

 

Really? manually fed? I knew there was no orientation for the edge printing with either side, but I assumed it was automated. . .

 

It is automated - there is no way the mint could afford to have someone manually feed millions of millions of dollars into a machine all day long.

Speedy

 

If they did I suspect that would look something like a famous I Love Lucy episode.



hahaha!!

 

LOL.. I remember seeing that Matt. That red head was hilarious.


OP, DO NOT use acetone or anything on that coin.