Still no help

conleytheking · May 6, 2012

Went to a coin shop and had my double clipped half looked at. He said it was real...but just told me to look up the value in a red book. The book only offers a price for a single clip...that being $25. So...still don't know what to think of it.

palidin20603 · May 6, 2012

Sell some of your 40%ers and have it sent off to get slabbed, maybe that would give you a better idea on value? Then you may be able to take it to a coin show and see what the offers look like.

namster · May 6, 2012

palidin20603 said:
Sell some of your 40%ers and have it sent off to get slabbed, maybe that would give you a better idea on value? Then you may be able to take it to a coin show and see what the offers look like.

This.

BuffaloBoy · May 6, 2012

sweet double clip man! I do not know much on errors, but from what I hear, double clipped coins are worth considerably more than a single clip. I have a double clipped nickel, a few single clipped pennies dimes and nickels, they just go in my "oddities" pile along with a bunch of other "keepers"

-"keepers" referring to the non-silver, non-wheat pile with anything I come across that is unusual, usually errors and extremely worn coins.

Numismaniac · May 6, 2012

I'd check Ebay. It can be a good source for values on stuff like this. Cool find!

nsdq · May 6, 2012

if one clip is around 25 a double may go fer 50 ? if it had 3 sell fer 75 etc......

conleytheking · May 6, 2012

Numismaniac said:
I'd check Ebay. It can be a good source for values on stuff like this. Cool find!

I looked on eBay. No double clipped halves at all.

PhattyB · May 6, 2012

A 1971D double clip that's just as nice as yours sold for $48 on ebay. A beat up and not very clipped 1999P sold for $8.

So, my opinion, the market right now is probably about $30-$45 range, and probably not worth getting slabbed. Borderline though, you could probably get an almost 100% return on the fee.

KENNEDY 1971D DOUBLE CLIPPED HALF DOLLAR ***FREE SHIPPING*** | eBay

1999 DOUBLE CLIPPED PLANCHET JFK KENNEDY HALF DOLLAR ERROR | eBay

kontrapunktus1750 · May 6, 2012

My guess is that the proportion of double clip coins to single clip coins should roughly be similar to the proportion of single clip coins to normal coins.

Therefore, since a single clip coin is worth 50 times face value, it would not be unreasonable to think that a double clip coin is worth 50 times what a single clip coin lists for--at least as a starting point. $1250.

Now, figuring out the demand is another thing. Perhaps someone would buy it for 20% of that. I don't think $250 is unreasonable for such a dramatic error.

kontrapunktus1750 · May 6, 2012

PhattyB said:
A 1971D double clip that's just as nice as yours sold for $48 on ebay. A beat up and not very clipped 1999P sold for $8.

So, my opinion, the market right now is probably about $30-$45 range, and probably not worth getting slabbed. Borderline though, you could probably get an almost 100% return on the fee.

KENNEDY 1971D DOUBLE CLIPPED HALF DOLLAR ***FREE SHIPPING*** | eBay

1999 DOUBLE CLIPPED PLANCHET JFK KENNEDY HALF DOLLAR ERROR | eBay

Oh well, so much for my theory. :dontknow:

sagittarius98 · May 6, 2012

PhattyB said:
A beat up and not very clipped 1999P sold for $8.

1999 DOUBLE CLIPPED PLANCHET JFK KENNEDY HALF DOLLAR ERROR | eBay

I think the 1999 "clip" is just PMD.

frankendime · May 6, 2012

Error coin collectors are a small and finicky bunch, they will pay big for what they like. Not like silver, which has a pretty much set price no matter what it is 35%, 40%, 90%, .925,.975 etc, etc, Find the right person, sit on it till you can get the price you think it should bring. Dig your coin, man.