dangchick Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 I have here what I think to be a flipped, double struck, full brockage. I am new at this so I would love to hear everyone’s and anyone’s opinions on this coin. This Lincoln Memorial penny is a 2000 Denver mint. It has both images on both sides. One set of images is probably the original stamping; it is normal. The other set has the images in reverse and they are both concave. Also, they don’t line up with each other. As far as I can tell the brockage covers the whole coin. Is this unusual? The pics I have seen of this type of error usually have “ears”. I don’t think this is fake because I found it in circulation. Who would take the time to make a fake and then spend it? Anyway, please tell me what you think. The pics aren’t that great, but it’s as good as it gets with my resources. If anyone has any ideas on cash value that would be wonderful. Please take a look at the pictures. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 thats a weird one... and without closer pictures its difficult to say %100.... from those pics and not being able to see it closer i'm leaning towards something else and it's prob not an error... the front looks like there is glue or something on it???? My best guess is that someone glued 3 cents together and that's the middle one after they broke them apart... brockages distort the heck out of the coins shape...where as this one looks to be normal... my brockaged 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangchick Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Try clicking on the picture once to enlarge and another time after that. That's what the original that I took looks like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangchick Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Nevermind. I had to do that on Fri, but you don't have to enlarge twice now. Thanks for replying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 no problem... for reference I wanted to post a pic of what I was talking about with the distortion... this is what brockages do to zinc cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangchick Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 It makes sense what you said about the glue. I don't think that's what it is though. I'll look at it more closely tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangchick Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 It's a fake. I scratched some of the glue off last night. Kind of a bummer. It's an interesting coin even if it's not worth anything. I think I'll keep it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 might as well keep it... can't hurt nothin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCanadianM Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Whats a brockage? Cause I want one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 A brockage occurs when a coin is struck and then sticks to usually the bottom die.Then a new planchet is fed in and struck. The original coin that was stuck then acts as a sort of die and leaves an incuse reverse image on the other side of the second coin (the brockage).Brockage's can be found which are miss-aligned and partial. The most sought after type are the "full' or mirror brockage, where the image is fully centred and a mirror of the opposite side. Heres a pic of a Victoria obverse full brockage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCanadianM Posted April 25, 2007 Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 So that mangled thing Lost posted would be the coin-turned die? Thats seriously cool! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 no that mangled thing i posted is an off center brockage on a "squishy" zinc planchet. the older copper planchets dont distort nearly as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCanadianM Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Wow. I wonder what the things stuck on the die looks like then? Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Wow. I wonder what the things stuck on the die looks like then? Thanks again That becomes what some call a die cap or capped die coin. Here is a link to one in eBay.eBay auction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCanadianM Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Woah! Man you guys are helpful! Thanks for sharing, that is really amazing! (Sorry for highjacking the thread! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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