1953 Nickel - Misaligned Die...?

Can you show the entire coin?

Hmm! No. Kinda round not pointy on the right side as if the blank didn't quite fit inside the collar.

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?