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Lincoln Memorial Cent Brockage Error

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 Posted 08/11/2025  12:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinHI to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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So, a brockage error is where a struck coin sticks to one of the dies and strikes the next planchet coming through, correct? The weight of the brockage error is within the tolerance for a correctly struck coin. Correct?


This might make it easier to understand. "Struck Coin" is redundant, you either have a planchet (unstruck) or a coin (struck). A brockage error can happen on any planchet (thin, split, clipped, or standard) so weight isn't an indicator. It doesn't need to stick to the dies either though that is a common way to get brockages. This coin, which was either a split or thin planchet, was fed into the press with another planchet and was struck. Therefore it is uniface (only one side die struck). The design on the obverse is a bleed through of the reverse strike.

There is lots of info on Error-ref.com to read through and it is where we get most of our error information: https://www.error-ref.com/?s=brockage
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 Posted 08/11/2025  12:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jerrytheplater to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks CoinHI for your reply and pointing out my misuse of terminology. I'm trying to learn.

Thanks for the link too.

I was just looking over the forum topics to see if any addressed what a real coin making machine looks like and detailed information of the parts and how they all fit. Sure would help to understand how errors come about. I've only seen mint videos and they don't show any details. I'd like a step by step of how dies are installed and operated. I'm assuming at a die change out some test pressings are made to check for alignment etc.
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 Posted 08/12/2025  03:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gigi2110 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very nice error!
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It's either a split planchet or a planchet derived from rolled-thin cent stock that was struck beneath a planchet of presumably normal weight and thickness. In short, it's a thin planchet with an in-collar uniface strike.
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Thanks to all that have answered so far. I went to the company I retired from yesterday and was not able to use the microscope there to take photos. It is currently out of commission. Same for the XRF where I was hoping to confirm the alloy of this coin and of a Civil War Token I have.
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