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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject: broadstruck, clipped kennedy |
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Here is a 1995 D kennedy half that has been subject to a planchet clip, and then broadstruck. I purchased it, beleive it or not, in a dealers 6 for a $1 bin. You can tell that the clip is real and not post mint by the way the 5 in the date fades out in that portion of the coin as well as the st in trust fading to non existant, the reverse also shows where the strike gets weaker towards the clipped side of the planchet. The reason the clip curves is the result of the broadstriking, because of the lack of a collar when the die struck it the metal sought the path of least resistance in which to expand causing the inward curve at the edges of the clipped portion as all the metal flowed to that position.
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