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1994 20c Brockage? Please Say 'Yes' ...

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 Posted 04/01/2014  08:43 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add awildeheart to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all, please, please tell me I have found a genuine error with this baby.

I've been scouring coin error terminology to find the name for this coin and I am thinking 'brockage' is the right term. Or is it a 'strike through' or a 'die clash'?

Be gentle with me, it would be hard to take another heartbreak so soon ...

You can see part of the reverse imagery on the queen's neck, cheek, and hair.

1994-20c-Brockage?--Please-Say-'Yes'-...

1994-20c-Brockage?--Please-Say-'Yes'-...

1994-20c-Brockage?--Please-Say-'Yes'-...

1994-20c-Brockage?--Please-Say-'Yes'-...

1994-20c-Brockage?--Please-Say-'Yes'-...
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 Posted 04/01/2014  4:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add airgem to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a shed job to me. But warrants closer inspection. Struck through with a hammer is my guess.
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 Posted 04/01/2014  6:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add enworb to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not a brockage. PMD.
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Sorry, but we can't say "yes". It's not a brockage. A brockage looks like a perfectly normal coin on one side, and the other side completely blank except for a mirror-and-incuse version of the exact same design on the perfectly normal side. If your coin were a brockage, the queen's portrait should not be there at all. Here are some good brockages.

Nor is it some kind of die clash. The dies do not have a high rim like that which could create a clash. When dies smash together with no coin blank between them, the parts of the die that hit each other are the highest points on the die - which become the lowest parts of the coin. A die-clashed coin should show no damage on the coin's high points (the obverse legend should all be clear and readable, not mashed-up like on your coin), but an amount of new detail raised up in the fields and other low points. Here's a typical die clash.

Sadly, your coin is PMD - a "vise job" - two perfectly normal coins have been squeezed together, either deliberately (like in a vice) or accidentally (like if two coins were used to keep a heavy piece of furniture level).
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 Posted 04/01/2014  10:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add awildeheart to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Oh man!

Thanks for the info everyone.

Sigh ... ...

But my noodling time wasn't all wasted as I also found two very good die cracks that I'll post tonight. I haven't found any die cracks before and then I found two in the one session.
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