1632-39 Scotland 2 Pence Question?

Not an error from the mint, but a clip from someone who probably clipped all their silver coins just once until they had a nice little bag of clips then traded that in for something, probably more coins haha.

That way you can still spend the coin for face value, and make a little bit on top. There were measures in place to try and stop this such as extending part of the design to the rim so that it became obvious when a coin was clipped (although this one is nice and obvious, normally they're a little more discreet), however people still did things such as punching a full hole into the middle of the coin, pocketing the piece of silver that's been removed and then filling in the hole with tin or something similar.

I stand corrected! While it was prolific during the hammered coin period, this was indeed a copper coin and as Sel rightly says they probably wouldn't have cut it in that case.

I assumed it was silver from the pictures, school boy error.

I have a rather very worn turner of the period, and at 16mm diameter, it matches up to mine.