I think Smitty might be right. A very thin die cap falling to pieces, with various shards, including the well-detailed shard, indenting this subsequent strike.
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The dies would have been normal. I think that the piece was struck through fragments of a thin die cap.
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The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The same thing happened on the coin's reverse. Several of the areas are brockages and several are indents.
<< <i>The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The same thing happened on the coin's reverse. Several of the areas are brockages and several are indents. >>
You may be right. Another possibility is that the thin cap restruck the reverse die and picked up a normal raised reverse impression and then disintegrated, with most of it falling away but the detailed area adhering to the obverse die to make the brockaged indent. Various shards of the cap made the indents on obverse and reverse.
Look at the indent at the ON of ONE. Is there some design detail in that?
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<< <i>The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The same thing happened on the coin's reverse. Several of the areas are brockages and several are indents. >>
You may be right. Another possibility is that the thin cap restruck the reverse die and picked up a normal raised reverse impression and then disintegrated, with most of it falling away but the detailed area adhering to the obverse die to make the brockaged indent. Various shards of the cap made the indents on obverse and reverse.
Look at the indent at the ON of ONE. Is there some design detail in that? >>
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I think that that would support my idea of a thin, restruck cap that then came apart, if part of the restruck design was in place but the "U" was displaced like this.
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struck through delaminations?
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struck through lamination fragments?
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Nailed it
Very Nice Error >>
<< <i>The dies would have been normal. I think that the piece was struck through fragments of a thin die cap. >>
most likely since there are multiple pieces.
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edited to add:
now you said that, i don't recall ever seeing a die cap w/o the bottom!
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Going to offer it to Rick?
<< <i>The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The same thing happened on the coin's reverse. Several of the areas are brockages and several are indents. >>
You may be right. Another possibility is that the thin cap restruck the reverse die and picked up a normal raised reverse impression and then disintegrated, with most of it falling away but the detailed area adhering to the obverse die to make the brockaged indent. Various shards of the cap made the indents on obverse and reverse.
Look at the indent at the ON of ONE. Is there some design detail in that?
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<< <i>The coin is brockaged from struck fragments of metal which had adhered to the obverse and reverse dies. The obverse fragment was struck, stuck to the obverse die, and then was struck again into the surface of this coin (notice the design of the brockaged area is exactly opposite the design on the coin's reverse.) The same thing happened on the coin's reverse. Several of the areas are brockages and several are indents. >>
You may be right. Another possibility is that the thin cap restruck the reverse die and picked up a normal raised reverse impression and then disintegrated, with most of it falling away but the detailed area adhering to the obverse die to make the brockaged indent. Various shards of the cap made the indents on obverse and reverse.
Look at the indent at the ON of ONE. Is there some design detail in that? >>
yes there is
<< <i>Can you identify it? >>
I can make out a U , but that's all
Frank Gasparro's initials incused and reversed on the obverse of a Lincoln
<< <i>Massively cool
Going to offer it to Rick? >>
I just got that joke.
Pawn Stars here I come again ...