1953 Nickel - Misaligned Die...?

You could check to see if the weight is a bit light. The roundness on one side might indicate it was struck on an incomplete planchet (elliptical clip).

Here's a more extreme example.

When you see a normal clipped coin there is a part of the coin missing. Yours and mine are the result of clips or maybe they are the clip.

Suppose the plate only moved a hair and the cookie cutter rmover only a sliver off the edge of the already cut cookie. You would have an almost round cookie like yours. A little more and the cut cookie would look more like mine. This all happened before our coins were struck.

I have a question, Zonad. Are there any distinguishing marks to tell if a coin has been honestly clipped, like the example you have shown, rather than being a coin that has been skillfully filed off to produce that "clipped cookie" shape? Design flowing to the edge, etc, like on traditional clipped coins? I've seen these on ebay a number of times (almost always American coins, I've noticed) and always shied away because I've never been able to satisfy myself that I was getting the real deal. But to have a legitimate one in my collection would be sweet, if I knew what to look for.

Thanks, Zonad. I took a closer at yours and I see what you mean with the letters right at the edge of the clip. It does remind me of the weak or "flowing" letters on a regular clipped coin, which makes sense to me. Maybe you know, or possibly someone else, is there a Blakesley effect (or some equivalent) on these coins as well?

I thought this might be of interest.
http://boards.collectors-society.co...#Post3563436

Thanks for the link Zonad