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1974 Washington Quarter Minor Clipped Planchet

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 Posted 02/14/2022  7:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list
I've found a few on cents. I call them 1/2% clips.
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 Posted 02/14/2022  9:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SamCoin to your friends list
@coinfrog not rim damage. These minor clips leave a slight weakness around the rim because the blank's diameter is too narrow for the protorim to be upset, which gives it the very typical softness on both sides that you see here, exactly like in the image Coop posted.
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 Posted 02/14/2022  10:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
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 Posted 02/14/2022  10:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
@ Sam, minor clips? Where on the OP coin the diameter was touch? We start to invent? All COOP photos show legitim clips, observe the sides, the rims, the strike. This coin is hit coin, any structural test will confirm.
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 Posted 02/16/2022  6:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SamCoin to your friends list
No clue what you mean, @silviosi, but this is absolutely a clipped planchet. It's impossible to flatten the rim like that without displacing the metal, which would take the coin out of round.
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 Posted 02/16/2022  7:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
@Sam. The clips come from cutting planchet. This on OP coin is a hit from outside to inside the coin, so the diameter will not be affected. Side photos will confirm this. This it is not a curved clip, is far from.
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 Posted 02/16/2022  8:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SamCoin to your friends list
@silviosi if it were hit on the outside in, metal would be displaced inwards. When a clip is extremely small like this, the pressure from the strike actually forces material outwards into the negative space left by the clip until it reaches the collar die, so you will only see the clip in the lack of a protorim as we see here.
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 Posted 02/16/2022  8:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wrekkdd to your friends list
I think I see both arguments here. If this one done early in the coins life it could easily have worn to look more smooth. A shot of the rim where it happened might show something. The rim on the reverse is much thinner then the rim in the obverse but the reverse rim still seems to be more intact. Idk about this one I'm going to say PMD.
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@SamCoin, Nice one! My wife got me in the habit of calling these "nibbles."
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 Posted 02/16/2022  11:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
Sorry I am late on this. If it is a clip is before strike and COOP explain well will be tappers near the rim. We do not have this. We look at the rim, look at the no 4 and near under the neck, show this coin was hit. Never a clip will be like this. If a clip is present due to the collar, near will be tapered.
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 Posted 02/17/2022  12:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Earle42 to your friends list
Am I just tired or do the mushy letters on the REV in the same area hint at PMD?
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 Posted 02/17/2022  12:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SamCoin to your friends list
@Earle42 mushy letters are diagnostic of clips as the negative space left by the missing material and lack of a protorim often causes strike weakness in the immediate area around the clip. Here's a link to an example of a slightly more major clip I found on google images that demonstrates this nicely https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/...planchet.jpg
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 Posted 02/17/2022  12:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Earle42 to your friends list
Thanks!
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 Posted 02/17/2022  11:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
Enough of the metal moved in to form an edge, but not enough to form the devices. Thus the weakness on that area of the strike. If it were a proof coin and was struck twice, the devices would have probably look normal after the second strike. But business strike cents only get on strike. The missing clipped area would probably be very small on this coin. Seen an edge of the coin on that area would be nice to see?
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