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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 7331416, member: 66"]Early stage struck through capped die.  The obv die was capped. When a coin sticks to the hammer die the first few coins struck afterward will be brockage strikes On side normal and in relief, on the other side the design will be incuse AND NORMAL IN SIZE with all details showing. During these first few strikes the coin stuck to the hammer die is spreading, capping over the die, and the design on the face striking the planchets is enlarging and the peripheral details start spreading off the striking surface but the central features still look pretty good, but still incuse.  That is the case here, the OP coin has been struck but one of these early stage capped dies.  Once the coin starts spreading off the striking face I no longer refer to them as brockages but rather as capped die strikes. In mid stages the design spreads more, becomes more vague and the features of the hidden die face start to show through. In late stage the design that WAS on the striking face is so large and distorted it is almost gone and the "hidden" design shows fairly well. In Very late stages the "cap" has been pounded so thin it is pretty much just a layer of foil and the coin will have one side normal and the other looking nearly normal with just some slight distortions from being struck through the "foil".[/QUOTE]