1965 Half Penny Clipped Planchet Error?

[MACKSILKY.]

Hi guys just got a delivery of coins i won in auction, nothing really interesting bar this coin. Any ideas, thanks jim.

[Nordle11]

Looks like a clipped planchet from the initial punching (straight cuts).

if it were round it would be clipped when puching out the blanks.

From what I can see there's good fading on the beads by the clipped part, which is a good indicator that it is a genuine error and not a post-mint error.

[MACKSILKY.]

Thanks NORDLE is this common or quite rare mint error? And how does this actually happen to the coin.

[scott]

it happens

not common at all but hard to say exactly.

[Nordle11]

Not too common but not an expensive error, you can get yourself one for £5-10 depending on where you look.

I believe that the first press cuts a long strip of metal into squares (when the cutter goes off centre and cuts into an adjacent square you get a straight clip like yours) and then the second press cuts out the blanks from the squares (again when off centre it gives a round clip like Scott's).

Clipped coins aren't specifically on here but try this site for some different errors http://www.coinnews.net/tools/error-coin-price-guide-with-mint-error-photo-descriptions/

[copper123]

unfortunately these coins are easy to fake as well so they will never be expensive i have a few decimal examples from the seventies they would only fetch twenty times face at the best

[RChris]

You have to be really careful with (often so called) errors like this as they are so easily manufactured to deceive post mint. As Matt says, if the beads and/or lettering fade towards the cut edge it's a good sign of a genuine error. But I've seen straight clips like Jims that have vertical striations down the clipped edge which is a dead giveaway for a grinder causing the "error". I had two straight cut halfpennies once which when carefully examined still had remains of swarf on the edge.

[MACKSILKY.]

Good point RCHRIS, I've had a good look at this coin, where the cut is there is no rough edges also the cut edge of the coin is the same colour as the main of the coin. Would a larger or clearer image help in any way, thanks jim.

[scott]

there is also a weakness in strike on the opposite side to the clip sometimes. cant always see it on every coin though

this is one I got recently, probably someone in 1753 got this, and lobbed it into the thames (where it was found) no way anyone could mess with it, and if you look in the opposite areas you can see slightly elongated teeth on the obverse and some lines on the reverse on the opposite side.

[MACKSILKY.]

Nice coin scott.