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1920 Buffalo Nickel - Clipped Planchet

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 Posted 02/16/2024  4:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add PaulyD to your friends list
@john1 - Are you thinking tampered with or clipped by someone?
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 Posted 02/16/2024  5:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tunnioc to your friends list
A rim would never form where that piece was missing, or clipped.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  5:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Agree this is questionable.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  5:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list
Looks to be too worn to tell for sure. Maybe the "pseudo" rim was just metal movement building up from circulation? On the obverse is that the Blakesley effect or just rim wear?
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 Posted 02/16/2024  5:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
How would metal build up from circulation?
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 Posted 02/16/2024  5:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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How would metal build up from circulation?


From that flat edge contacting other surfaces and rolling the metal up onto the fields - whether those other surfaces would be other coins, cash register drawers, etc.
Was just throwing the idea out there for discussion.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  6:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list

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@john1 - Are you thinking tampered with or clipped by someone?
That's the same thing. Even with the wear I think it is not a genuine incomplete planchet.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  6:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
@Marve - sorry, inconceivable. C'mon.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  7:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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@Coinfrog: "sorry, inconceivable. C'mon."

That's the exact same thing the naysayers told the Wright Brothers...

EDIT: Just another thought - Don't the rims of Dryer Coins get pushed up higher onto the coin from making contact? After all, this coin is 104 years old and has had alot of contact.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  7:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jacrispies to your friends list
Clearly not a clipped planchet. You can even see the coarse sanding lines on the edge. The rim that comes close to the clipped portion would taper down, visible even on worn examples.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  8:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list
Please note: I'm not arguing just asking a question......

This is also on ebay and kinda looks like the same type of clip/damage as the OPs coin. Would this be a fake also?
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 Posted 02/16/2024  8:46 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
Marve, can you post the ebay link so we can see both sides of that coin? I am not seeing any Smith effect, nor the Blakesley effect. Sometimes it is stronger on one side than the other. But neither example seems to have metal flow from the devices towards the gap. They look cut or ground, pushing up metal above the field in both directions.
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 Posted 02/16/2024  8:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list

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can you post the ebay link


Hold on - my first attempt didn't work - I never posted a link before.

OK, looks like I got it......
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nk...290&_sacat=0
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 Posted 02/16/2024  9:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Not a real Clip. PMD.
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 Posted 02/17/2024  4:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sharks to your friends list
Looks like the edge was ground down.
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