Clip or PMD on this raw Morgan?
Cladiator
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I'll be the first to admit I know next to zero about errors and such things. Looking to you error aficionados to chime in and and educate me a bit with this one.
Thanks for the help in advance. 
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It looks more like post mint damage. Usually clips go all the way through the coin because of the sheer pressure on the dies as they close. However, this one is just on the very edge so it might be a clip, but I'm leaning more toward PMD.
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I'm in the clip column. I think I see the Blakesley Effect.
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Me, too.
If it's real it might qualify as a rim clip.
It’s a genuine clipped planchet
Fred has spoken and now we all know. Thanks for chiming in Fred!
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What's going on with the edge? The reeding appears to have not been imparted onto the coin on the obverse side. The blank edge goes from 10%'ish to about 50% as you move around the coin. Is that an artifact of the rim clip error or another issue all together?
Clip AND tilted partial collar. Nice!
You nailed it – I didn’t notice that in the first set of photos
Of those two errors does one cause the other or did they happen independently? Sorry for all the questions, just soaking this stuff up here.
Clipped planchet errors occur concurrently with partial collar and off center strikes often enough that there must be a correlation, in my opinion. It’s possible that a clip can cause a slight issue with the feeding mechanism or cause it to sit funny within the collar, which causes the striking issues. This is just speculation on my part.
Genuine clip and partial collar, and all on a Denver issue which is the scarcest of the three that year for errors. That Morgan is a winner in my book.
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Nice find.... and great confirmation by @FredWeinberg .... Thanks for the excellent pictures. Cheers, RickO