Hi all, Welcome to my 32,000th Like celebration thread! Thanks to @TuckHard for that like! Today I want to share my latest Mint Error acquisition.. 1 Cent - 2000 P - with a 20% Brockage Strike Here is a 2000 Lincoln Cent with a 20% Brockage. Only the word “Cent” shows in the Brockage strike. I won it today from @Fred Weinberg on ebay. Thanks Fred for listing so many spectacular Mint Errors!
When you can fancy rubbish into a term that makes numismatics take note.... it's fitting that your 32,000 post is about "Brockage". How do you even come by this stuff? Much less know that it's legit? Not that that matters, because it IS a pretty piece of.... rubbish.
One similar to this could be created outside the mint but would be easy to identify as altered. The copper plating would be damaged where the metal stretches for one thing and the letters on the coin would be normal looking.
I gotta say this Paddy...come on will ya? The coin looks like it has glue on the obverse and since CENT is backwards and upside down it's obviously a vice job. Therefore it's PMD and not an error. Okay, now I feel better. Lol That's a great error and a wonderful addition to your collection. Way to go Paddy!
How about a near-perfect "ONE DIME" within the brockage strike? As a bonus, Roosevelt's face profile is still on the coin.
For those who have not seen the last Brockage Cent I acquired from Fred.. look at this hot mess When I sent it to NGC for attribution.. Not the coin but the NGC label! https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1c...ck-with-obverse-brocakge.337515/#post-3495206
The lead-off coin is an "aligned partial brockage". There are three known causes for such errors. The most common cause, and the cause in this case, is an off-center (partial) die cap. An off-center planchet was die-struck on both faces, clung to the hammer (obverse) die, and was struck into the next planchet (your coin).
@paddyman98 Just curious, but why do you send so many to get slabbed, especially if you know what they are? Wouldn't you want to save $35 per coin to buy more coins?
I love my error coins.. I love to have them attributed. I love the way they look slabbed. And.. One day If I decide to sell at a major coin show I want to display them like Jon Sullivan and Fred Weinberg do! I have hundreds more in flips in albums. Those are fine where they are
