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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1709567, member: 11521&quot;]Yes, that is a very late stage die cap. Nice find!! </p><p><br /></p><p>The hammer die (obverse) struck a coin which stuck to the die. The die with the coin stuck to it continued to stike more coins. The obverse of those coins (the ones stuck by the die with the coin stuck to it) will have a mirror image of the reverse because they were struck by the reverse of the coin stuck to the die. (Everything will be reversed and the&nbsp; features will be incuse.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Every time the hammer die strikes another coin with the coin stuck to it the die cap (the coin stuck to the die) gets smushed and expands a little bit until it is very thin and rolls back up around the sides of the die. (At that point it looks like a bottle cap, hence &#039;die cap&#039;.) The details on the die cap (the reverse ) get more and more smushed and expanded until it strikes a coin like yours. Notice the huge, faint memorial struck into the obverse of your coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cool find!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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