Scissel is the scrap produced in the punching of coin blanks from a continuous strip of metal. The scrap is collected and remelted to form new sheets, or may be melted for manufacture of other alloys.[1]
^T. E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence The Mint: A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922, with Later Notes , CUP Archive, 1948 page 162