So I picked up two of these from my local coin shop yesterday because one seems to have gone through the rimming stage while the other has not. I thought that was cool. But after taking them home I noticed the non rimmed ones clips are clean cut 90• angles from the faces. That seemed unusual to me but maybe I'm missing something. The one with the rim has at least some sign of damage around the edge of the clip. Maybe this none rimmed one is just a far higher grade blank. Maybe pulled straight from a dark part of the machine by a worker one day. I don't know! I need SOS
They are not clipped. Never were. They are incomplete blank planchets. They were punched out of the sheet stock too close to the previous blanks that were punched.. Remember that.. Cool. With no upset rim is a Type 1 Blank With an upset rim is a Type 2 Blank Planchet
Thank you, that's fun to have type 1 and 2, is there a type 3 blank or does it go straight to striking the design after the upsetting? And can you describe the difference between how a clip forms and a what you described? I thought they were the same thing till now.
The planchet is never clipped.. That's the point. They call it a Clipped planchet because it looks clipped. The planchet was cut to close to a space of a previously cut planchet. What you are seeing is a missing piece not a Clip.
