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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2178158, member: 66"]Die caps and brockages are related.  When a coin is struck and sticks to the die it becomes a "brockage maker" and the next few coins struck by the press will be full brockages.  But as the "brockage maker" continues to strike coins it begins to spread out, distort, and become thinner.  Eventually the "brockage maker" starts cupping around the neck of the die becoming a die cap.  Eventually the brockage maker/die cap becomes so thin and distorted the brockage design fades and the design from the other side begins to show through.  Finally the coins struck may look almost like a normal coin but with some distortion from being struck through just the thin "foil" left remaining over the surface of the die.  (In some cases the "foil" will even develop holes in it.) So it is a continuous process from new Brockage maker though very late stage capped die.  Exactly were the coins struck stop becoming brockages and start becoming struck through capped dies I can't say.  Possibly when the last traces of the enlarged distorted reversed design disappears.[/QUOTE]