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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1203754, member: 66&quot;]Struck through a very late stage capped die.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For the sake of argument let&#039;s say the reverse was the anvil die and obverse was the hammer die.&nbsp; A coin got stuck to the obverse die.&nbsp; The next few coins struck would be what were called full brockages with a raised image of the reverse and an incuse image of the reverse.&nbsp; As the dies continue to strike coins the coin stuck to the obv die spreads and wraps around the die.&nbsp; Coins struck now show a normal reverse and an enlarged, distorted, and slightly incuse image of the reverse.&nbsp; As the die keeps pounding the metal covering the die face gets thinner and thinner, the design of the obverse begins to show through.&nbsp; now what you have is a coin like the one in the OP.&nbsp; The reverse is normal, and obverse design shows but not well, and there are still faint traces of that reversed enlarged reverse.&nbsp; If it keeps striking coins eventually the obverse will be almost normal but it will look like it was struck through a layer of metal foil.&nbsp; (Which frankly it was that being all that was left of the intervening coin.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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