Slowly adding to my struck through capped die collection. Most of what I have are late stage but have been trying to find some reasonably priced earlier stage ones. This one was $36 including shipping, which is more than I would typically go for such a thing but it came with four other minor error Lincolns so the package made it worth it. And I like it, so there is that.
I was watching that group of errors and I had picked that coin above as the winner in the group. It looks even better in your pics than it did in the auction. Congrats on the very nice pick up.
Sean I am betting a number of folks were watching that little error lot, but for some reason no one really wanted it all that much. I figured it would sell a couple cents of $40 and it went for $31 thus I got it. The big clip on the 1956-D AU is fairly nice and the 1974 mis-aligned die is a pretty high-grade coin so along with that random copper no date off center it seemed like a good way to add this one to my collection and grab some decent by-catch along the way.
A coin was struck normal, but stuck to the hammer die (tail side facing down/out). The next planchet went into the chamber and was struck. The reverse is normal, but the obverse was struck through that coin that was glommed onto the hammer die (a capped die). So this coin is the one that was in the chamber, not the one that was capping the die. It has a normal reverse, but the obverse was hit, essentially, with the reverse side of the coin stuck to the hammer die. Thus it gets a funky-looking memorial on it with hints of Lincoln in there. Or the other way around, depending on how many coins have been struck by the capped die at any given point. The stronger the memorial shows up, the younger the capped die.
Pather, the link you posted to another Struck Through a Die Cap is a Late Stage Die Cap. The one here is an Early Staged Die Cap. That's why they look different.
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