2021 Shield Cent Curved Clip

Just return it, they'll give him his money back.

 

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Yea I should get a brand new 1 cent that isn’t messed up haha

 

Very nice incomplete planchet error.

 

He said it's defective, didn't he? You're entitled to a good one. After all, you paid good money for it.

 

The problem is that they strike so many that it's almost impossible to catch all the issues. So the public gets to acquire such cool errors.
The mintage numbers for 2021 isn't available yet. But each year it's a few Billion.

 

Maybe we should start calling them Mint Anomalies instead of errors. LOL

 

Lmfao we could end up going down a very technical rabbit hole in coin collecting and terms after that

 

I see that too

 

Brilliant

 

Blame the other guy, I'm good!

 

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Just pointing out realistic information so folks may have a better understanding of what they are looking at.

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People do it all the time. Its really what this site is about.

 

agree, it came from the mint, not intended form, =thus, a mint error

 

beautiful coin, that is on my WANT list

 

I also agree that this should be considered an error. Even though the planchets are sourced from a supplier, the incomplete planchet is still a nonconformance and the mint's quality system allowed it into the manufacturing process.

Just my opinion

 

A rose by any other name……..

 

The OP's coin is a nice find for a modern coin and is a genuine curved clip.

Also, gray on the edges of a zinc curved clip doesn't neccesarily mean it is altered.

A strike clip occurs after the coin received the copper plating and is caused by the actual coin die shearing off part of the planchet. Seeing that dies are circular, the shape of the clip is curved. and would show gray edges.

 

That totally confused me
So your example happened when it was being struck. I see one part that was struck another clipped.
When would a Strike Clip occur?
Would the sheared part became a Struck on Scrap?

The OP's is not a Strike Clip correct? Just an Incomplete Planchet.

 

@paddyman98

This is an example of what the missing piece would look like. The explanation is below.



https://www.error-ref.com/elliptical-strike-clips/

 

Very interesting information. I had read about it years ago but forgot.
But can we establish that the issue you brought up is very rare and most Incomplete Planchet issues occur before the striking of the coin. There are newbies who believe that the planchet is actually "clipped" during the process of cutting the blanks out of the stock metal sheets.

 

I like using that word.