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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3022069, member: 19463&quot;]Brockages are interesting because they retain the detail intheir lowest recesses that wear away forst on the &#039;normal&#039; side.&nbsp; IMHO, grading of brockages should refer little to the normal side but grade the quality of detail transferred to the incuse.&nbsp; Mine below has all but two letters of the legend and the top 3/4 of the dolphin which makes it lesser than a coin that has all of both.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]751704[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Brockages are not only found on Republicans but the do seem more common there. Below is a Septimius Severus of &quot;Emesa&quot; which I could not resist.&nbsp; It shows well the tendancy for the incuse to spread a bit larger than the normal side.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]751705[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Brockages are almost always of the obverse since that was the side on the anvil and coins sticking to that die would be noticed and removed while those in the upper punch could be missed more easily.&nbsp; This Victorinus or Tetricus reverse demonstrates a period when the portrait was on the upper die and the brockage shows the reverse (COMES AVG).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]751706[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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