What Happened To This Dime?

looks like a capped die to me, its done where another coin is stuck to the obverse die and that coin was struck with with the obverse die capped with the other coin, or that is the coin that was stuck on the die. I am not an error expert but thats what it looks like to me

It's a generic capped die strike. Struck by a late-stage die cap.

Thanks for the help on the id. I had read something about capped die errors in an earlier post and suspected thats what it was, but I'm mostly a bill collector so I wanted to be sure. However what do you mean by late stage and how can you tell that difference between an early, mid, or late stage. Thanks again for the help.

Nice find! I would love to have a pocket change find like that!

I got a quarter that looks like that. hmmm

Lets see if I understand what you are saying.

Planchet gets struck and then stuck, usually to the hammer die. New planchet is put in place and struck with capped die. The first few planchets struck in this manner will have a reversed image on one side.

After a few coins have been struck the cap becomes thinner and the reverse image becomes weaker.

Eventually the cap is almost nothing so the image from the die starts to get through again like on the coin I found.

Is that essentially what you are saying. Thank you for the explanation it make the coin that much cooler to me .

Actually, the middle coin -- the one with the brockage on the reverse face -- is probably not a die cap. I know they're always labeled as such. But these coins are the mate of a double-struck reverse die cap. The evidence that such coins are struck only once is as follows:

1. A smooth transition between floor and wall.
2. A crisp incuse outline of Lincoln's bust on the reverse. If this had been struck more than once (the second time against another planchet), the brockage would have been obliterated or nearly so.
3. The expansion of the brockage is equivalent to the expansion seen in two-strike reverse die caps (the mate of such a coin).
4. 99% of broadstruck coins with full, first strike brockages show cupping of this magnitude. If the cupping required more than one strike, we would expect to see coins with little or no cupping and the latter coins would predominate in the market. But such coins hardly exist, and most of these are probably the result of abnormally low striking pressure.
5. If these coins were die caps, there would be an even greater number of coins with counterbrockages. But I've only seen six in ten years.
6. In these coins there is relatively even expansion of the brockage from edge to center. If these were die caps there would be far greater expansion in the center. While the center may be somewhat more expanded than the periphery, this is more likely due to the fact that the center of the coin receives the full brunt of the strike while the perimeter squeezes out between the dies, escaping the full impact.
7. Cup-and-saucer mated pairs that feature a 2-strike reverse die cap (the vast majority), feature a "cup" that looks just like this. The top coin must be struck only once.