brockage error

i went to the coin shop the other day and they had the little wheats by the pound bags and i found this in there i paid $6.95 for the bag http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f99/hummermodder/brockageerror.jpg

 

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I can't make anything out other than it is a wheat

 

very sorry i got some better ones http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f99/hummermodder/Picturesfromdiggital043.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f99/hummermodder/Picturesfromdiggital044.jpg but to much better sorry

 

HArd to still make out, but it looks more like a grease filled die, but could be wrong. Are you using the macro mode?

Phoenix

 

yeah and through a loupe also
i will try to get some better scans on the wifes scanner

 

ok i took this one its actually the reverse but you can clearly see the obverse impression
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f99/hummermodder/Picturesfromdiggital047.jpg

 

jon:
still hard to see, but NOT a brockage.
Looks like a clashed die.
the image of Abe is clashed onto the reverse die.

 

all i saw on that last pic was mush is very hard to see anything at all.

 

This is a case of progressive, indirect design transfer -- a form of die deterioration. A mushy, incuse version of Lincoln's bust was transferred to the reverse die through the intermediary of hundreds of thousands of struck planchets. It's a common effect on wheatback cents, especially those from the late 1940's.

 

oh ok thank you for the knowledge

 

Wow, an I impressed myself with 'clashed die'!
Thanks, Mike.
You teach me something every time that you post.