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Pillar of the Community
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That would've been quite the clip!
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Actually I've got quite a few clips, even a 10% Ike dollar in MS66. But one hardly ever sees these incomplete clips. I really like them !!Thanks, CC2000. |
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I'm sure an expert will chime in. The only question I have is if this "cut" were on the planchet pre-strike wouldn't we see metal flow toward the "cut" from strike pressure? I really have no idea but I would guess PMD. |
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I just checked page 30 of the Canadian Coin News, and looked at a picture of a one cent coin with exactly the same kind of "cut", and one edge is quite sharp, while the other edge has a long, shallow slope away from the cut. On the face of it what you say seems to make sense, but............It would be good if you could access the picture I'm talking about, as the cut is across the Queen's face, just as on my coin. And the coin is identified by one of the known experts. Thanks, though.
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Bedrock of the Community
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For comparison, here is a Civil War token struck on an incomplete clip planchet(weakness@ EUR caused by an obverse Cud)-  Quote:
if this "cut" were on the planchet pre-strike wouldn't we see metal flow toward the "cut" from strike pressure? You would on a modern coin but Bust halves were not struck with a collar so the planchets expanded outward instead of being confined within the collar. |
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I'm sorry, but I really can't buy an incomplete clip. The devices wouldn't have struck into a pre-existing indentation as they look here, in my opinion.
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If you study the minting process of these early coins, then you would determine that the coin has PMD. First the blanks were punched out, run through the Castaing machine for the edge lettering and then to the screwpress for striking. The striking of the coin would have at least obliterated some or most of the die lines. The die lines look like they were put on the coin after it was struck... PMD... |
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Looking at the Angle of the mark. there's coincidence with the material feeding movement in the die process. Another fact is that The radio of the mark it's the same radio of the coin. "For me" YES, there's an incomplete clip.
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Thank you all for your input. I really appreciate both sides of the argument, but so far I've found nothing that would sway my belief that it's an incomplete clip.
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