Are you sure I'm sorry I ask so many questions but didn't you say there I supposed to be a clip on the opposite side if it is a clip and this does
Your pic shows post mint damage. Opposite a clip will usually be the blakesley effect. Look at the weakness opposite the clip in the examples on this page and compare to what your pic shows. http://www.error-ref.com/_curved_clips_/
It's a good question. I just think the coin is worn and dinged up to the point that it would be hard to see the "Blakesley Effect" if it were there. What I do see are the rim dings.
I don't mind answering your questions, but you may be confusing one response for another. I believe that another person mentioned the "Blakesley Effect" which states that the edge opposite a clip should show a weakness in the strike. This weakness is on the same side. So, if a clip is located at 4 o'clock, then the weakness should be evident at 10 o'clock. Chris
It's just too worn to state positively one way or another, but the way that it bulges outward (photo of you holding the coin) it's safe to say that it is PMD rather than a cud. Chris
One of your pics shows a heavy rim ding--is it the same area? In any case, I think it's hard to know either way on a coin this worn.
I agree that someone smashed the edge in. I don't see a cud. It's just an old CENT in pretty bad shape. The coin that coinman1234 showed is how a clip edge should look like!
