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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1839243, member: 15929&quot;]Based upon your pictures, the large clip is a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Typically, when the blanks are punched from the metal sheets, the CnCladding on the bottom of the planchet gets stretched over the edges creating what appears to be a half CnCladding/half copper edge. This means that the blanking strip received the same action but in the opposite direction. For example, as the blanking punch &quot;pushes&quot; the blank through, the cladding on the bottom of the strip gets stretched up over the edge of the blank. Conversly, the blanking strips cladding gets stretched down into the hole just created by the blanking punch.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this means is that a valid &quot;clip&quot; (incomplete planchet) will have copper towards one edge of the clipped area and the edge of the coin will have copper on the opposite edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the coins have 100% Copper Cores, physically creating a blank will create a solid copper core with no cladding showing except for a very thin line at the top and at the bottom of the clipped area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note how the copper core, on the clip below, is at the top half of the coins edge but at the bottom half of the clips edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]305307[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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