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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1626903, member: 11521&quot;]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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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