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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lkeigwin, post: 1269815, member: 30400&quot;]No, it doesn&#039;t appear to be a clip. It appears to be rim damage, post-mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>A clip happens when a blank is punched and is incomplete, usually due to a sheet feeding error. The blank is later upset, to create the rim and is then a planchet. The planchet gets struck to create the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>With this in mind, you would not see a crushed rim from a clip. Most are straight or curved and clean. A ragged clip is an exception, where there is tearing near the blank&#039;s edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes a coin is intentionally cut to make it appear to be a clip. Error experts (I am not one) know how to check the clipped edge for diagnostics, like the rim tapering away, and device weakness, near the clip. You can imagine why this would be so, as struck metal flowing toward the clip is not forced into the die&#039;s recessed devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Often there corresponding weakness directly opposite the clip for similar reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors are fun but I only know enough to be dangerous, so I stay back.</p><p>Lance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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