3rd Party graders use the term clipped. But those who know how it was created understand why it was never clipped. Here is a Kennedy from my collection. See where my planchet was punched from to form the issue? Look at the gray circles. They were punched to close to previously punched planchets.
It’s called a curved clip but in reality it’s an incomplete planchet. A nice mint error. Nice to have but very affordable.
Here’s one from my collection. This is a piece of sheet metal that the planchets are made from. When the sheet is not feed correctly it will cause the planchet to be cut where it already was cut from another planchet. That overlap causes the incomplete planchet.
Thank you for the illustration that helps a lot Okay! Thank you for the illustrations! Nice error by the way.
Huh. Decades in the hobby, 11+ years here on CoinTalk, and this is the first time this distinction has caught my notice.
I'm not doubting anyone that it is a clip, but photos of the edge are needed to positively identify it, IMO.
The first clip I ever bought was an IHC at a flea market for $0.25 and the seller remarked that it was a shame someone had mutilated it!
