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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 444702, member: 66&quot;]42 years as a numismatist reading everything I can get my hands on, including books on error coins.&nbsp; Looking at coins and trying to figure out what would have to happen in order to get the effect I&#039;m seeing.&nbsp; Thinking about exactly what happens during the striking of a coin slowing down the process mentally and seeing what is going on, how the metal is moving, where it is moving to. One thing I think every collector really needs, and few have is a THROUGH understanding of how coins are made. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are still some things that I don&#039;t understand.&nbsp; I need a better understanding of the blanking process.&nbsp; A clipping blank is formed when the strip fails to feed properly or the punch press fails to shift properly.&nbsp; (The punch press has either one row of punches tha shifts from side to side about one radius between punches, or two row with the second row offset one radus.&nbsp; This allows more planchets to be punched from the strip.)&nbsp; Now with this setup I can easily see how ou can get a straight clip, a curved clip, two straight clips, a straight and a curved or two curved clips.&nbsp; I could also see a Y or a bowtie fragment.&nbsp; Now the two straight or straight and curved clip combinaion should be 90 degrees apart, and the two curved clips should never be 60 degrees apart or 180 degrees apart.&nbsp; But yet they do come at different separations.&nbsp; And I can&#039;t see how you could have me than two clips yet multiple clips are known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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