Well,let's start with the obvious,its backwards,she lost her cap and the word liberty on her headband is raised instead of incused..shall I continue?
I don't personally own the coin, but I remember my father having a coin that was identical (perhaps this is the same coin) that was sold at a bowers and merena auction, along with a lot of his other large cents. He told me what type of error it was, but I can't remember. I suppose I'll have to ask him this weekend.
It almost look like it's copper but it can't be a flowing hair large cent 'cause the design is totally wrong.Hopefully some of our US experts will chime in...I'm stumped because it looks REALLY old.
I just talked to him on the phone, and he said the coin he had was a brockage error. I sent him the picture I posted, to see if it was the same as the one he had, or possibly the same exact one. I'm not even sure if the picture I posted is a brockage error. He mentioned that he still has a picture of the coin he owned, so I'll try and post that sometime.
AHA! It's a half cent,only one known,Recent sale: 1829 Half Cent Brockage (illustrated below). Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach" Sale, June 5-7, 2000, Lot 97, where it was described as follows: "1829 C-1 R1 VG7 Obverse Brockage 10% Off Center Recolored glossy olive and steel brown with some underlying tan from the cleaning. The only mark is a small rim bruise over star 8. The brockage impression on the "reverse" is perfectly aligned with the obverse, about 10% off center to K-4. An impressive mint error and extremely rare on a half cent." The photo you showed is actually the reverse! Here is the obv. of the SAME coin. VERY COOL!!
BROCKAGE A brockage error can only occur when there are two coins involved. One of the coins involved will always be a struck coin which has not ejected properly. That struck coin will find its way back between the dies and will be struck next to a blank planchet which was fed into the collar. The image of that first struck coin will be impressed into that side of the blank planchet. The result will be a second coin which has images of the first coin impressed into it. Those images will be pressed into the coin and the image will be in reverse. This incuse sunken image is known as a brockage. I learned something new today..thanks zaneman!
It's a Broadstrike-A coin that was struck outside of the retaining coller.When that happens they spread out larger than a normal coin.
B12 - that is the correct definition of a broadstrike. But look at the pic more closely - the image is completely reversed and it is incuse. Read post #11 in this thread for the explanation.
