I'd like to hear what you think happened to this coin. Some say Brockage, and that would seem to ecplain the reverse "PLURIBUS". My main question concerns the far right edge. How was the rim upset, and how was the edge reeded? Thanks for your time. http://www.cointalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19057&d=1181010795
But the Sainsbury ones are not so common, they were given away at the opening of new store I believe :smile :kewl:
Some say Brockage, and that would seem to ecplain the reverse "PLURIBUS". Yes, I agree with a brockage. My main question concerns the far right edge. How was the rim upset, and how was the edge reeded? I don't think that is reeding, perhaps part of the design from the coin in the die about this one.
That is amazing ! Normal coin gets struck, then somehow goes back to stage 1. It gets offstruck with a brockage die.....
Sorry. Didn't mean to cause such confusion. My general policy is to avoid posting to threads that I have no knowledge of.
Yes, that is a strange error. I don't know enough about errors in general to really comment, but that had to have been a fully struck, normal nickel that managed to go back through the minting process, hence the upset rim and everything, right? How'd you come across it, BTW?
Negative. The rims on blanks are upset prior to the designs being struck. Here is an educational link on the minting process... http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/howtheunitedstatesmintmakescoins/ Not mine. I ask for my own curiosity, and because it was the subject of another thread.
Jhonn & Jerome: In no instance did anyone say that the coin had been re-struck a second time (by going thru the coining press a second time). I can make a guess that a blank planchet entered the die area and an already struck coin was not fully ejected. The first coin, already properly struck, lay between the die and the planchet. When the new planchet was struck, creating the coin shown, it was impressed with the already struck design from the not fully ejected coin. Thereby imparting the reversed design that you see in the picture. And: Jody: If you only posted items that you had full knowledge about, then how would anyone learn? In addition, the comments of others make me think about the minting process. Thanks for the posting and the picture. P.S. Can you show a picture of the reverse?
It's a partial brockage. An nickel was struck into the planchet represented by your coin. The "reeding" is damage from a coin counting or coin wrapping machine.
It appears that the coin was already struck when it received the second partial brockage strike. You can see the flattened distorted IN of IN GOD WE TRUST in the brockage area. Also this coin was not in the collar when it received the PB strike because that area is flattened and stretched out so the coin is not round. If it had received the PB at the same time that it received the initial strike it would have been down in the collar and would have stayed round.
