50c Error Coin?

Hi, g'day

thanks all for your comments & support.
whether it is PMD or clipped, I decided to keep it. it will be part of my 50c error coin.
now is time for another noodling adventure, never give up hope :).

I'd say the original coin and the one in the ebay auction Nancy linked to are probably real clips but you'd need to see them in hand. 50c clips don't show some of the diagnostics that other coins do because of their shape and method of manufacture.

The only two real giveaways are:

1. Fishtailing of letters near the clipped area

2. The transition of the raised rim to the clipped area won't be perfectly sharp. You should see a gentle slope on the raised area down towards the missing part of the coin. A damaged coin will just be "cut off". This can be difficult to detect on worn coins unfortunately.

I'll try to take some pictures illustrating these two diagnostics and post them up later.

markn the engineer seems to have appeared in the last posts. The main reason 50c clips are more difficult to determine as real is that they don't show the Blakesley effect as the planchets are not pre-rimmed before striking. So if you can't see any definate fishtailing it's often a bit of a guess.