Error Coin Some Call Brokage Others Call Lamination?

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markoit New Member Canada 2 Posts	Posted 06/10/2017 2:10 pm Recently acquired this nice error. Looking at various sites some call it a 50 % brokage others call it Lamination error? What would the correct term be. As all sites I have checked have different views. Thanks Report this Post to the Staff

biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 06/10/2017 2:40 pm It is a large post-strike delamination, you can confirm that by weighing the coin. A brockage will have a normal weight while a delamination of that size will be significantly light. Even though the top layer of the coin has peeled off, it is normal to still see a ghost impression of the design on the underlying layer. Report this Post to the Staff
markoit New Member Canada 2 Posts	Posted 06/10/2017 2:44 pm thanks just curious as I have seen others where the complete top layer is gone and they call them brokage > Like 2 seperate pieces and only 1 ..There are many graded like that but they dont say lamination peel ? why would that be.. Report this Post to the Staff
Talonbat Valued Member Canada 395 Posts	Posted 06/10/2017 5:59 pm A brockage is something totally different. You can easily read up on it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockage Basically it's a mirror image on one side, sometimes you can have percentages of that one side. This is why biokemist6 says a brockage will have normal weight where as a lamination will lose a piece and thus weigh less. You can see the correct design, albeit much less defined, where the metal is missing on yours making it easy to identify like biokemist6 did. Report this Post to the Staff
Wade Pillar of the Community Canada 2781 Posts	Posted 06/10/2017 10:35 pm VERY nice (de)lamination. And as others have stated, lamination and brockage = 2 completely different animals Report this Post to the Staff
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