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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pondering_Infinity, post: 3440808, member: 101452&quot;]This coin is a French 12 D from 1792.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is clearly a flip over strike with broackage. My question is trying to understand the number of strikes and the broackages and how this all went down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully my pics are better. I found an app for the iphone called MagLight which seems to work better than the standard camera app.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here goes... the first strike gives the coin an obv and a rev. Then we flip over. There must still be a coin there however and that causes the broackage on the obv. The most obvious brockage is at the base of the bust. The brocakge shows the bottom of the bust and the BB mint mark in negative on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The odd this is on King Louis forehead. You can see in broackage the right side of the u then the I an S of LOUIS. To me... if I am right about the origin of the broackage and I think I am... LOUIS should not be on his forehead... there must be yet another strike somehow to do that.... or am I wrong?</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a bit of a puzzle only fellow error geeks could love.... am I right wrong or is there another explanation?</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope the photos do this justice..</p><p>Gary[ATTACH=full]913475[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913475[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]913475[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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