A Halfway Clip

A picture would help.

To explain a little. A clipped planchet is created as part of the process involved in cutting discs called "blanks" out of the metal strips used for coinage. The incomplete blank then goes through the process that upsets an edge onto it and that point you have a planchet. In a case like this...an "incomplete planchet" that is the more correct term for this type of error.

An incomplete planchet then gets fed into the coinage presses and details are imparted to it. They are encountered frequently as errors go but most incomplete planchets are weeded out by various pieces of machinery before they get struck into coins.

Incomplete planchet errors are not the result of a mishap in the actual minting of the coin where the die or dies cuts off a piece of the planchet.

There are things like partial overstrikes that might explain the coin that will ultimately be pictured. The description provided also sounds like the coin might have had another coin placed over the top and then the two coins together were hit with a heavy object causing damage to the coin underneath.

It sounded by the post that the author may have thought that clipped planchets happen during the striking of the coin and I wanted to explain the process.

I'll look forward to the pictures.

Thanks,
Bill