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Late stage die cap?? Can die caps happen on both sides?

CoppergoldCoppergold Posts: 48 ✭✭
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I feel like I gotta write A paper to get people to see what i see lol. This seems to be the only coin that I cannot seem to agree on with others determination of it being “plating blisters/die deterioration.” I know there is “ Peripheral Die Expansion and Erosion” but i feel like there is something else to these..
Reason why? Ive seen a lot of die deterioration on 88 P Dimes, ive seen some zinc cents with blisters but its not even close to being like this. I had a nickel that had an off center strike at like 65 percent off the planchet, the part that stuck out away from the planchet had one side cleanly struck, where the other side was just like my two coins “surface sand paper textured with dramatic warping”.
I guess it was a capped die or brockage? But nickels don’t have any zinc or plating, but the side that nickel that had the die cap/brockage had a sandpaper surface look to it just like these. The nickel was waaay more dramatic looking and you could not tell the design was there.
There is only one problem with my suspect on my coins being capped die, I've never seen a capped die with both reverse and obverse having a capped look to it. Can you get a die cap with it displaying on both sides? Its really hard to think about how that would happen..
Anyways I searched basically all day on error listings and i didn't find what i was looking for until I typed in google “what type of error would make a coins surface look like sand paper.” I found capped die photos….. Maybe i am a little too “Hope blinded”, but Idk my brain doesn't want to let this go…
But heres what i came up with, i used “Short cut app” to create these compiled images.
Man I really hope someone knows… sorry this is so long.

Heres the other one, one seems more sandy, the other seems really warped. Ive seen a lot of die deterioration and zinc blisters, none of it looks this dramatic like these two coins.

Now heres comparison to other known late stage die caps that just, idk if you dont think it is, ill be shocked lol


The best way i can explain what i see, is if you think of a die cap smashing and failing near the edges/rim because the pressure is centered, and the space it gives on the edges/rim where the pressure is less applied, would kind of give the appearance of the warped spot/ and would explain why the middle is so messed up.
I really hope i can get an answer to this. I gotta find an expert to talk to. Let me know what you think!! You think i am crazy donchya, i kinda agree…. Lol




Anyways thanks again!!! Sorry so long.

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