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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 512348, member: 66&quot;]Ok, I can see how it occured now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s assume the obv die is the hammer die.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin is struck and remains in the coining chamber.</p><p><br /></p><p>A planchet is fed in on top of the coin in the coining chamber.</p><p><br /></p><p>The press cycles and the upper planchet becomes a brockage with an obv and an incuse image of the obv.&nbsp; This brockage sticks to the obv die and the other&nbsp; coin is ejected from the press.</p><p><br /></p><p>A planchet is fed into the coining chamber and struck between the reverse die and the obverse brockage.&nbsp; This repeats several times.&nbsp; This causes the obverse brockage to spead as it begins forming acap on the obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the planchet for this coin is fed into the press.&nbsp; It is struck between the reverse die and the now distorted and distended obv brockage giving us a coin with a normal but sharply struck reverse, and an obverse of the cent but larger than normal and in very flat relief with the image extending beyond the edges of the coin.&nbsp; Also note the dishing effect at the rim on the obverse which is charateristic of a coin struck through a die cap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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