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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1681772, member: 24633&quot;]Welcome to the neighborhood, Pete!</p><p><br /></p><p>A true clip is fairly easy to identify by the &quot;Blakesley Effect&quot; and this would be pretty hard for someone to reproduce.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://dniewcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/04/blakesley-effect-on-clip-error-coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dniewcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/04/blakesley-effect-on-clip-error-coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://dniewcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/04/blakesley-effect-on-clip-error-coins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A strikethrough is not really rare, but it is not too common either because it is a one-time occurrence that would not ordinarily be duplicated. Probably the easiest way to determine if the strikethrough was Post-Mint Damage would be to examine it under high magnification. If you see a &quot;crater effect&quot; along the edges where something has pushed the metal out of the depression onto the edge, it was likely done after the coin left the Mint. You see, when the die comes into contact with the planchet while there is a foreign object between them, the metal cannot be pushed upward from the depression. Rather, it will flow into the fields or other devices of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to believe that a clip (depending on the severity) will have a greater value associated with it than would a strikethrough, but that is just my opinion. You never know what goes on in the minds of bidiots these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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