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Struck Through Die Cap
ecbiggs1
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My Father-in-law passed a few years ago and I was given a baggy of wheat backs he had saved and I found this coin mixed in with them. I'm a fairly novice collector and would like some confirmation if this is an example of a struck through die cap, if anyone else concurs that it is a 1972 D and if it would be worth sending off for grading?
Hopefully the pictures are good enough to see the date, but under a loop it does appear to be a "7" next to a "2" and I believe it's a "D" mint mark.
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This is a split after (or possibly during) 1st strike with an off-center 2nd strike with reverse brockage. A rather impressive combination of error types!
It's definitely worth getting professionally graded and slabbed by one of the major grading services..
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Second strike is uniface. It would make a brockage on the other coin, but it isn't a brockage itself.
I'm not sure what to make of the split strike. The raised rims are unusual.
I'd be interested to hear a weight if you can get it. The normal reverse strike guarantees that something was between this planchet and the obverse die. If it was the other half of this planchet, then the remaining coin here would be light. I could also imagine that it was struck under a different split planchet, where the weight of this one would be normal.
Plus the date!?!?! If what we're seeing is a 72-D identified on this minoot portion of the error, that is quite amazing!! 👍 👍
Weight is 1.53g
Make that 1.51g
So definitely split after the first strike and before the second.
I like this one a lot, just barely enough there to identify the date/mm.
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Date present is a big plus. This is double struck on a split struck planchet (1.51 g) with second strike being 85% off-center with a reverse indent. No clue how PCGS would abbreviate the heck out of that to put it on a holder, being the industry laggard in information density, but it's cool.
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not struck through a die cap
What she said
A very nice error. Congratulations.
Based upon the weight there was definitely a split planchet involved, but because of the hammered reverse strike and the indented ring just inside the rim of the blank side I wonder if, just perhaps, it was split before the strike and was struck while sitting on the reverse die with a complete, normal planchet sitting atop it? It is not impossible that a planchet and a half might have been fed into the coining chamber by the feed fingers.
Then after the strike the split piece failed to eject properly and got struck way off center while slightly overlapping a new, normal planchet.
Definitely needs to go to a TPG as an error submission. Might I suggest ANACS? Feel free to enclose a copy of this suggestion.
Tom DeLorey
Here is a similar piece I have.
Thank you for sharing! I’ll submit mine for grading and post a pic once I get it back.