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Unusual error
Hussulo
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Heres an unusual error:
It appears to be a struck through scrap error but the scrap has left a brockage image on the obverse. The only theory I can think off was a piece of scrap metal was fed into the dies with a previous coin it was struck by the reverse die which may have been positioned above, the scrap metal then fell onto the obverse die and this coin was the next one to be stuck. The scrap piece of metal with a partial impression of the reverse die then left an incuse partial brockage imprint on this coin.
Anybody have any other theories does mine make sense?
It appears to be a struck through scrap error but the scrap has left a brockage image on the obverse. The only theory I can think off was a piece of scrap metal was fed into the dies with a previous coin it was struck by the reverse die which may have been positioned above, the scrap metal then fell onto the obverse die and this coin was the next one to be stuck. The scrap piece of metal with a partial impression of the reverse die then left an incuse partial brockage imprint on this coin.
Anybody have any other theories does mine make sense?
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Rick
1836 Capped Liberty
dime. My oldest US
detecting find so far.
I dig almost every
signal I get for the most
part. Go figure...
I posted it over on the US forum to see if any US error exports have seen anything similar and Sean Reynolds said
"Your explanation is spot-on, your coin was struck through a piece of struck scrap. The most likely origin for the scrap is a lamination from a previously struck coin which fell off or stuck to the obverse die. I have seen similar errors on US coins, most memorably a reverse of a 1926-S cent. No clue as to the value of your coin, but it is definitely high up there on the coolness scale."
AEgis3 said:
"Your theory is close. I would say the piece of scrap metal was struck (no other blanks present), and either stuck to or rested on the obverse die (I do not know which die was the hammer die for British coinage), and then this coin was struck. It looks like the brockage fragment is at the proper orientation/position for a British coin assuming it did not move between strikes. These errors are also known for American coins, both with the scrap metal shifting or not shifting between being struck themselves"
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Theres a couple of US examples in this thread:
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=778819&highlight_key=y
I've now received the coin in hand and took a better picture of it:
1963 Struck through scrap, partial brockage, error Scottish shilling.