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To simplify what I am saying, when you have a heavy clash on the obverse, people think the raised areas of the "jailhouse" clash is from the columns, it is not, they are the bays. So when you have a typical die clash, what is raised on the coin with be incuse from a clash. Hope that helps. What you have is a very nice, strong letter transfer from a clash though, not from a dropped filling.
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Very nice find, I agree with @makecents here. The 'Y' looks incuse to me as well as the clash remnants - I determined this by looking at the lighting and shadows.
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 You know, I have read the description on error-ref many times, and couldn't get my head around the clash being incuse. Guess I have been looking at clash marks all wrong. I have been interpreting what I see as clash marks, backwards. Had to take time to really visualize the process, but, I think it's FINALLY gotten through!  Thank You Everyone! You just helped me unlearn my incorrect understanding, and replace it with the correct one! 
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Quote: To simplify what I am saying, when you have a heavy clash on the obverse,... Thank you. 
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Quote: I have been interpreting what I see as clash marks, backwards. In my earlier days of learning errors and varieties I saw it that way too. 
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Quote: You know, I have read the description on error-ref many times, and couldn't get my head around the clash being incuse. Guess I have been looking at clash marks all wrong. I have been interpreting what I see as clash marks, backwards. Think of a die clash in two parts. The die clash itself strikes a raised, positive coin onto the opposing negative die. When that modified negative die strikes a coin, it makes a positive coin, but the additional positive features on the die strike negative features onto the coin. I think of a die clash as holding the coin up to a mirror. Then everything you see that is raised in the mirror sucks down on the front coin face, from the center outwards, and from the fields first.
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Quote: Think of a die clash in two parts. 
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Quote: Think of a die clash in two parts. The die clash itself strikes a raised, positive coin onto the opposing negative die. When that modified negative die strikes a coin, it makes a positive coin, but the additional positive features on the die strike negative features onto the coin.
I think of a die clash as holding the coin up to a mirror. Then everything you see that is raised in the mirror sucks down on the front coin face, from the center outwards, and from the fields first. I am not sure what you are talking about. A die clash is exactly that, clashing of two dies, with no coin/planchet involved. The hammer die and anvil die hit each other with NO coin involved, that is how a clash is made, then the clashed dies, when they have a coin/planchet introduced, creates a coin with clashing on it.
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I will try to draw some rudimentary diagrams tomorrow to try and simplify the process of how a clash is created.
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Quote: I will try to draw some rudimentary diagrams tomorrow to try and simplify the process of how a clash is created I imagine others also look at a clash the way I had been, but I've got it in my head now! Thanks. (The coin thing confused me at first, but after some sleep and rereading Brandmeister's explanation, I believe that I understand what he was saying: The clash creates a minted coin's feature [raised] on the opposing die, which in turn, creates the negative [incuse] feature on future minted coins.) Bonus for me: By verbalizing Brandmeister's explanation (I really did that for my own benefit), it also popped into my brain how a counter clash is created. 
Edited by snailking1 Yesterday 04:44 am
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Good discussions all around. 
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Quote: Good discussions all around. Absolutely! Sometimes being wrong can be very beneficial! 
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Been out of the loop lately and just seeing this one. Glad Makescents clarified this for folks.
I was going to add that I purchased 30 OBW rolls (1983P) this year & found about two rolls of the clashed "Y" on the reverse so far. The "Y" was in bays 1, 2, & 3, which, until these rolls, had been hard for me to find. The "Y" was found most often in Bay 3, which would be typical. I would consider the clashed "Y" in bay 1 to be an "Atypical" clash, but maddieclashes says that designation is subjective, depending on their attributor.
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Quote: The clash creates a minted coin's feature [raised] on the opposing die, which in turn, creates the negative [incuse] feature on future minted coins. Yes. What you really see in the background of the struck coin is a partial reconstruction of the opposing die ( not the opposing coin face). It's an image seen through a mirror—but American coins make it loopy because we mint coins to be flipped top to bottom, so the dies are also 180 degrees rotated to each other when they clash.
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