Here is a 1976 5 cent. Triple struck/last strike brockage. I am in the process of compiling a set of errors from this set of dies. I have 13 coins plus a cap (3/8" deep). It is really cool being able to trace the error progression. Any thoughts.:thumb:
My thoughts are: I'm new to this and would love to see the rest of the set. If you have the time, I wouldn't want to put you to work and take you away from your searching. It would be educational to us newbies, and pictures of errors are awesome to look at! Cool coin!
Here is a very poor image of the cap. Remember, it has come full circle from an Obv. brockage to now a Reverse Brockage. I use a scanner. I have a photog friend who is going to take pics for me. Included is a pair of matching coins. A single struck brockage as well as another triple struck. Love em....
Great errors, but I would contest your diagnoses and descriptions. The first coin appears to have been struck only once and consists of a broadstruck nickel with a partial brockage. In your second post, the top image does not show a brockage. It is, instead, a ghost image of the reverse design that bled through the thin floor of the cap from the hammer die. Your bottom two images are too small for me to analyze.
I understand you are informed on errors. Here is why I feel you are incorrect in your assesment of a single strike on the first coin. I have circled the 3 different elements on the first coin. I will not debate the name used for a cap. For me to call it a brockage is incorrect. I will post individual pictures of the other two coins to show association.
I still see only evidence of one strike. The small arc of beads in the otherwise unstruck crescent on the right may be a "stutter strike" caused by the planchet being tipped up by the pressure of the intrusive coin and meeting the descending hammer die prematurely. The brockage and the die-struck part of the coin were created in the same downstroke.
As I have the benefit of coin in hand, I can see depth that you can not. Also compounding the issue is that this image is taken thru a Canadian soft TPG slip. 2 layers of plastic. The three elements are all on different levels. Wild....... Here are 3 more. I have concluded that they match the cap. The cud at 7 o'clock appears on the rev of the cap plain as day. Appears as the feathered portion of the obv of the cap. The tears in the cap appear as the lines. On the third coin.....the cud appears in the middle of the coin, but the tear mark is there at 3 o'clock. The scanned images make it difficult. As I said in the first post, I am getting better pictures taken soon I hope.
Here is the obverse of the last picture above. I have circled the legend where the original strike has been smeared. It is a spoon shape, very hard to scan as the second strike took place out of the collar.
