While going through a pile of wheat pennies I found the 1916d. I didn't think much of it until I found the 1957 with the same amount missing. I couldn't find any info anywhere else on-line and was hoping someone here new something about it.
Thanks Rick, If you would be so kind to help me learn, how do you know the 57 has damage as opposed to being a clip? I'll post some more pics of the 16d later.
They appear to be straight clips, but I'm no clip expert. I simply keep any Lincoln cents that I find that has a clip on it.
You made me go back to look closer. That closer look made me change my mind. The '57D might be a clip too. Better pictures, of both sides as well as the edges, would help.
Posting this and along with everyone's feedback lead me to searching what a "straight clip" is. At least that explains how this could have happened within the die. I was thinking they had to be the same arc as the diameter of the coin. Now I know, Thanks.
The chart below is intended as a representative example of what might occur to cause incomplete planchets. In actuality, the planchet strip is up to 18" wide, and gang punches may have up to 80 dies to punch the blanks. The numbers in the diagram are meant to represent 5 actions of the punch. The first, second and third are normal. The fourth punch has slipped (likely due to a loose guide), causing the punches to overlap the edge. The 5th punch also overlapped the edge, and overlapped the end of the strip as well. As you can see by the drawing, these various misaligned punches cause the incomplete planchets described above. With clipped-planchet errors, size matters-and so does the number of clips. On average, a statehood quarter with a single clip is worth about $50 to $60. It would be worth $75 to $100 with a double clip, $100 to $150 with a triple clip. A coin with particularly dramatic clips, or with more than three clips, could be worth even more. Conversely, a coin with relatively small clips could be worth substantially less.
