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VOCABULARY TERM: STRAIGHT EDGE CLIP

Here's another entry from Dick Johnson's Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Terminology. I've added an image from my own collection of a 1795 Half Cent with a straight edge clipped planchet. -Editor

Straight Edge Clip. A type of clipped planchet in which the punch was not positioned properly over the metal strip but instead punched a blank off the edge or off the end of the strip. The blank is not a perfect circle but is missing a portion which looks cut off with a fairly straight edge. If the edge or end was not machined smooth on the strip and had a ragged edge, this may cause a ragged edge clip. See clipped planchet.

  1795 Half Cent clip error obverse 1795 Half Cent clip error reverse

To read the complete entry on the Newman Numismatic Portal, see:
Straight Edge Clip (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/dictionarydetail/516828)

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