1972 clip: 1971 D struck through. The power went out a few weeks ago and a candle dripped on it. And ideas on how to remove the wax?
2002 P with an error on the rim. Not entirely sure what it's called, my best guess is "rim cud." 2005 D struck through grease. Wish it didn't have those roller marks!
Please post good photos of the edge of your clipped halves (at the clip). In post #3 the collar broke before the coin was struck causing an interruption in the reeding. Nice find!
On a genuine clipped clad coin the order of the clad and copper is reversed in the clip from that along the rest of the edge. (In other words, if you look at the edge of a clad coin and you see clad on the obverse half and copper on the reverse half but inside the clip the copper is on the obverse half and the clad is on the reverse half that is a good indication you have a genuine clip.) This phenomenon is caused by the way the blanks are sheared from the strip. The metal smears one way on the edge of the blank and the other way on the edge of the strip. If the strip does not advance far enough and a blank is punched out with a clip it will have the normal smearing for a blank along its edge but the smearing inside the clip will be in the opposite direction (because that used to be the edge of the strip before the clipped blank was punched out). Hope that makes sense.
Durn, I just spent about 5 Kennedy's that had those black marks you call grease all over the face. I thought they were Post Mint Damage from contamination of some kind. Never considered them to be of any interest to someone. Matter of fact I may still have one.
Perhaps you misunderstand what "struck through grease" means. It does not mean grease on the coin. It means that grease (or other gunk from the coin press) found its way onto a die and got into the recesses of the die causing the raised features (on the coin) that correspond to those recessed areas on the die to be either weakly struck or completely missing.
Yuh,got that. They feel rough like it had been sandpapered with coarse sandpaperr. I had a bank roll of Kennedy's that had several of em like that. I thought they had been scratched then dirtied so I passed em in bars and supermarkets. Who knew?
Since that was a week or so ago, I am sure someone has claimed them by now as specimens of the 'hardly ever seen' (except be us coin freaks) anymore Kennedy.
Thanks for the info, Hobo. They all check out in that respect. Would a picture of that definitely be something a prospective buyer would want to see?
Probably not. That is beyond the scope of knowledge of many collectors but it something that I think is extremely interesting (and a great way to authenticate a clipped planchet).
