What type of error is this?

slimbert

Help settle a disagreement....what type of error is this?

TomB

I have an idea, but might you have images of the reverse side, as well.

jonathanb

A "very nice!" type?

As a first guess I'd say it's struck through a capped die.

Is the inner rim as rounded as it looks in the picture? Can you post pics of the reverse and ideally the edge also?

FredWeinberg

I agree w/ Jonathanb-

Looks like from the one photo only - a struck-through very late stage capped die.
Would like to see the reverse side too….

slimbert

Here's the reverse:

FredWeinberg

Thanks for posting that – yes,it’s struck through a late stage die cap.

MarkKelley

Capped die strike is correct. And FYI, the date is 1973. It's the only year the designer's initials were this large.

MedalCollector

I would consider it an early to mid-stage struck through die cap error, not late stage. Usually, I’d like to see a lot more obverse details to call it a late stage struck through die cap error. Those die caps really got thin and let quite a bit of the obverse die detail to bleed through, and there’s just not much obverse design to be seen on this coin.

slimbert

Thanks everyone!

@MarkKelley , thanks for the tip on the one year 1973 reverse, didn't know about that. Although, looks like the top of the F should align with the building corner based on what I'm seeing on VarietyVista and TrueViews....but your intel does help narrow the date to 1974-1982 based on reverse and copper composition (3.1g).