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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikediamond, post: 123775, member: 1859&quot;]&quot;Capped die strike&quot; is quite a general term that encompasses a variety of errors.&nbsp; You can have a uniface die cap that from the get-go leaves no design on the coins it strikes.&nbsp; You can have a die cap with a brockage of the obverse design on the reverse face.&nbsp; This kind of die cap leaves a counterbrockage on the coins it strikes. ( A counterbrockage is a raised, expanded version of the obverse design.)&nbsp; You can have a normal coin that sticks to the die and becomes a die cap.&nbsp; This kind of die cap leaves a brockage (an incuse, mirror image) of the reverse design on the coins it strikes.&nbsp; There are even more exotic kinds of die caps that leave more complex images on the coins that they strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Die caps get progressively thinner as they strike a succession of planchets.&nbsp; You have early-, mid-, and late-stage die caps and, therefore, early-, mid- and late-stage capped die strikes.&nbsp; Late-stage die caps leave no design on the coin but simply allow a raised ghost image to bleed through the thin metal of the cap.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also have early-, mid-, and late-stage brockages and counterbrockages, which don&#039;t quite coincide with the stages of cap thinness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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