This coin has always intrigued me. I got it from, the late, Ed Colwell, (I hope I spelled that right) well over 40 years ago. I can't recall ever seeing a "no doubt about it" Jefferson nickel first brockage. As you can see, the "MONTICELLO" is very plain as our parts of the actual building. A better photograph would actually show the sharp peak over the door. You can also see the unmistakable image of Jefferson leaking through the upper coin. I thought you guys might like to see this and would welcome any thoughts.
Looks like a nice full brockage. I can only hope to find something like this one day. Thanks for sharing!
It's an early-stage brockage. I'm not sure why the design is so incomplete, but one encounters such an effect fairly often. It's possible that the nickel that generated the brockage was weakly struck.
Now the other coin, stuck in on die, that impressed the backwards reverse...'the victim coin' if you will .. we call that one a die cap, so these should come in pairs right? (or even more brockages per victim coin)
The number of brockaged coins a die cap can generate varies widely and depends on how long it stays attached to the die face. The minimum number is 1.
The reason I didn't call it a brockage and called it a struck through die cap is because it looks like the cap has already started spreading. The incuse image of Monticello is larger than the regular raised version. But it isn't much larger so I said it was early to mid stage.
What is the coin in your avitar? Some type of irregular planchet error, like a fissure, or another type? It looks really cool too.
ANACS referred to it as a "ragged clip" which, I suppose is as good as anything. It doesn't look like any "end of strip" clips I've seen, although that might be how I would classify it. If I use my imagination, I can see an inside corner clip, but I doubt that would fly. In any case, it's a cool coin - one of my favorites. Here's a couple of larger pictures:
Ragged clips can be derived from the untrimmed leading or trailing ends of strip, or they can result from the blanking die slicing through fissures that develop in the coin metal strip during rolling.
