Really cool error... what do you think of it?

[airplanenut]

I picked this up at the Parsippany show last Sunday

 

 

Jeremy

[jtryka]

Man how did that happen? It looks like there was another coin jammed with it, but the edge of the error/good part is wild!

[LEAKYCOIN]

Wow that brockage is almost full. Can you make the date out?

 

KINGKOIN KING OF KOINS

[rkkay-migration]

That's awesome, Jeremy.

[airplanenut]

This coin is a no date... But I'll venture a guess that its not the 1958 mule, so I'll say it's 1959-present

 

Although, the color makes me want to think it's 1982 or prior...

 

Jeremy

[airplanenut]

Man how did that happen? It looks like there was another coin jammed with it, but the edge of the error/good part is wild!

Here's the definition from PCGS' Lingo Guide:

 

"A brockage is a Mint error, an early capped die impression where a sharp incused image has been left on the next coin fed into the coining chamber. Most brockages are partial; full brockages are rare and the most desirable form of the error. "

[Hoot]

Very interesting and cool error! That's one of the best examples of a brockage I've seen, photos or not. Even the ANA's course on error coinage does not provide as nice of an example (in the book). It's interesting how the incuse image appears expanded.

 

Hoot

[Bruceswar]

nice coin... I like the error

[jtryka]

Jeremy, it looks like a copper cent from the images, but you can weigh it to be sure as they are heavier than the current zinc cents. If you don't have a scale, an old school dealer once showed me a trick for the cents (to identify the 82-copper cents). You take a 2x2 carboard cent holder, and balance the center on a pencil laid on a table. You put one that you know the weight (like a 2000 zinc) and the unknown one on the other side. If they balance it's the same composition as the known one, if not, it's the other composition. A neat way to do it for about a nickel rather than the $100 for a jewelers scale.

[airplanenut]

Now what I want to know is if the coin is possibly double struck...

 

Did the brockage come from another coin, which would mean double struck as the bust can be fully seen, or was the brockage imprinted on the die, which means it could have been a single strike?

[LEAKYCOIN]

Brockages are caused when a struck coin remains on either die after it was struck, and impresses its image into the next blank planchet as it is struck, leaving a negative mirror image. It sounds like two strikes take place in order for this to happen. This coin looks like another struck coin made its way into the press instead of a blank, and that is why you can see the memorial.

 

KINGKOIN KING OF KOINS