I was wondering how much this penny is worth. One side of the coin is of the leaf is sticking out and the other side is sucked in.
It looks like brockage, although, this doesn't look quite right. I think someone has tried to make the coin seem as if it were an error with full brockage. Neither design should be incuse (negative). All surfaces should be raised, which this does not seem to exhibit. And if there were brockage, on one side the design would most likely be mirrored. Whatever it is, I don't believe it is a genuine mint error. -Brian
It looks to me a full brockage, Hopefully Mike Diamond will pass here and give you a clear answer. Siggi
A brockage occurs when a coin (or a portion of a coin) is between the planchet and the die when a coin is struck. The coin (the one between the planchet and the die) becomes in effect a die and is pressed into the planchet. The newly struck coin will have one side that looks normal (although it may have better details) and one side that has the image reversed (images reversed and features incused where they are normally raised). If the coin (the one between the planchet and the die) is centered it will produce a "full brockage". If the coin (the one between the planchet and the die) is off-center it will produce a "partial brockage".
Supply us with more photographs! What I just noticed (which I didn't notice when I first commented) is that one of the sides is reversed. But for some reason, I remember brockage as neither side being incuse. I may be wrong though. I am no 'error coin' expert. -Brian
If a coin were stuck in the die and the next planchet inserted, one side would would be raised as a normal die would cause, The other side would be incuse (indented) caused by the raised details of the "stuck" coin. This looks just like that to me. A cent stuck to the obverse die and didn;t release. Then the planchet was pressed between the die and the previous coin. Making the maple leaf pattern raised on one side and incuse on the other. Cool find !
Makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up. If that is a full-brockage error, then it is certainly valuable, correct? The brockage (incused design) just looked so crisply struck that it was hard to believe it was a genuine brockage error, but hey, I guess "perfect" errors (<--oxymoron, haha) do happen. -Brian
