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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2880304, member: 19463&quot;]I believe using the term brockage here is incorrect but that certainly is a great coin.&nbsp; A brockage happens when a coin is struck normally but sticks,unnoticed, in the upper die.&nbsp; It then becomes the upper die for the striking of the next coin.&nbsp; That next coin is the brockage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was two blanks that stuck together and were hammered together fusing them into one, doubly thick, coin.&nbsp; If pried apart, I would not expect to see a brockage design on one half and a normal coin on the other.&nbsp; I would expect to see something more like the Valerian antoninianus below which, I believe was like the OP coin but separated from its partner rather than being fused with it (not hit as hard???).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]690247[/ATTACH] </p><p>I agree with John Anthony and Kermit the frog.&nbsp; It is cool and <span style="color: #00b300">it isn&#039;t easy being green</span>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am going way out on a limb and mentioning a question that has long bothered me and not been discussed in polite literature.&nbsp; There are many brockages.&nbsp; Each brockage was caused by a coin sticking in the die and being used as the die for the brockage coin.&nbsp; Should we not, then, have coins that were used to produce the brockages? What would they look like?&nbsp; I say the original design would be a bit damaged or flattened by being pressed into that second flan.&nbsp; I also say that the entire flan should be spread out a bit by being struck again making the flan flatter; cracks are a possibility.&nbsp; What I would expect would look a bit like the Septimius Severus Emesa mint denarius below.&nbsp; The reverse is boldly struck and the flan is flattened and cracked.&nbsp; The obverse is a bit mushy as it it might have been pushed into something reducing its detail.&nbsp; Certainly there are other answers for why this coin might look like it does but this coin is the best match for what I might expect a brockage mother to look like.&nbsp; I can not prove it.&nbsp; I would love to see other candidates for coins that made brockages or hear other answers explaining the phenomenon.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]690248[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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