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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Daniel M. Ryan, post: 1272572, member: 32253&quot;]The diplomatic offical term for Canadian error coins is &quot;varieties,&quot; but they&#039;re really the result of Mint errors. Some happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin, which I found last evening in my extreme penny-roll searching, is a 1968 Curved Clip Planchet Variety. They come from the sheets being misaligned when fed into the puncher during blanking: either a little too forward or a little too back. The Canadian Error Coins website has a page on them <a href="http://www.coinscan.com/mintingvariety/planchet/clipp.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinscan.com/mintingvariety/planchet/clipp.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and a walk-through page of Royal Canadian Mint procedure and related errors <a href="http://www.coinscan.com/mintingvariety/planchet/pvl.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinscan.com/mintingvariety/planchet/pvl.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]139567.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]139568.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A little banged-up, showing its age, but it&#039;s got that curved clip. And I found it in the wild, out of store rolls![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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