Cool Error Lincoln , Struck thru broken Capped Die ??

Smittys · August 26, 2013 7:18AM

LanceNewmanOCC · August 26, 2013 7:22AM

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struck through delaminations?
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ctf_error_coins · August 26, 2013 7:25AM

oops double post

ctf_error_coins · August 26, 2013 7:31AM

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struck through lamination fragments?
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Nailed it

Very Nice Error >>

CaptHenway · August 26, 2013 7:55AM

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.

gonzer · August 26, 2013 8:42AM

That die must have been something to behold!

CaptHenway · August 26, 2013 11:19AM

The dies would have been normal. I think that the piece was struck through fragments of a thin die cap.

LanceNewmanOCC · August 26, 2013 11:24AM

<< 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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SullivanNumismatics · August 26, 2013 11:45AM

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.

MsMorrisine · August 26, 2013 12:34PM

Massively cool

Going to offer it to Rick?

Smittys · August 26, 2013 10:47PM

Oh Fred where r u ?

CaptHenway · August 26, 2013 11:01PM

<< 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?

Smittys · August 26, 2013 11:11PM

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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. >>

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

CaptHenway · August 26, 2013 11:16PM

Can you identify it?

Smittys · August 26, 2013 11:43PM

<< Can you identify it? >>

I can make out a U , but that's all

CaptHenway · August 27, 2013 2:09AM

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.