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Rest in Peace
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This one is tough for me. The shape of the clip just looks so wrong to me that I am certain that I would have dismissed it as damaged.
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ErrorCoins222: Genuine curved clip - the die flow along the clip being the best evidence. The shape of the clip is strange, however the shape can be distorted under heavy pressure between two dies. I believe that is why the shape is distorted. During the strike the planchet altered it shape because of the area clipped out was large. |
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Pillar of the Community
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This is a tough one! I would think with such a large clip, the die flow would be more evident  |
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I have some wider large clips and yes, the clip is distorted (not perfectly curved) but I have never seen one so angular. I too would have dismissed this one.
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Has anyone ever seen an inside or outside corner clip before?...they obviously exist..otherwise they wouldn't be listed anywhere..I just can't find a pic anywhere of one..lol
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Bedrock of the Community
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Are you talking about an edge clip?
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Bedrock of the Community
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That was what I thought you were thinking of. Over the edge on two corners. The that would be missing two sides forming a corner, not an corner inside towards the center.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I can't think of an way there could be an inside corner on the blank. Outside corner, but not an inside corner. The punching is round. Falling over to edge would create the example I created above. But inside corner that is at a right angle, I can't see happening.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The Assay clip is PSD. PMD if it was done before it left the mint. But these examples were probably destroyed. But this is also done to a coin, not to a planchet and then struck. We have already determined the OP's coin was an incomplete planchet before it was struck. Edited by coop
10/30/2016 11:45 am
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Pillar of the Community
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The definition of an assay clip given in the reference I cited above does not appear to be PSD: Quote:
An assay clip appears on a coin as a triangular notch, similar to a pizza that's had a slice removed. The triangular notch represents where a piece of metal was snipped from the coin metal strip (or a blank or a planchet) to test its composition and physical properties. |
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Just found this book of mint errors I had in storage...it's by Alan Herbert..just thought I would share  |
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