To me this appears to be a small clip, and if I were attempting to "fake it" I'd probably try my hand at a bigger clip....which lends me to believe this is in fact genuine, showing the expected wear of the poor thing being in 50 years of circulation with no one caring until one day last week at my grocer it decided to enter my hand and say......"shouldn't I be noticed too?" haha......glad the coin has had its 15 minutes of fame with all of this wonderful Forum's honorable opinions and mentions. The coin says "Thank You!" as do I. :)























