Brockages of Australian Coins
Australian 1940's Half Penny Brockage ...
In Coin collecting, brockage refers to a type of error coin in which a side of the coin has both the normal image and a mirror image of the opposite side impressed on it.
Brockages result when a coin sticks in a die following striking. If the mint workers do not notice and remove it the next coin receives the impression of the coin rather than the die.
Brockages
A brockage error can only occur when there are two coins involved. One of the coins involved will always be a struck coin which has not ejected properly.
Brockage/Incuse
A punch-mark, a hollowed picture on the coin. In the ancient Greek (and Roman, other classic, etc.) coinage there're some coin-types inwich the reverse is the incuse obverse; ...
Brockages
Much has been written about how Brockages happen. (* see some definitions from the Web, below). Suffice it to say that a Brockage will have the same picture and wording on both sides, but on one of those sides, everything is backwards.
Brockage
An obverse brockage occurs when a planchet that has just been struck becomes stuck in the reverse die.
Brockage - A coin that has been struck in a die that still has an existing coin in it. The brockage coin will have an inverted impression of the original coin on one side.
Brockage - A mirror image of the design from one side of a coin impressed on the opposite side - occasionally, a newly struck coin "sticks" to a die, causing the next coin struck to have a First Strike Mirror Brockage of the coin stuck to the die; ...
brockage
A mirror image of a design from one side of a coin impressed on the opposite side, e.g.
Brockage
A coin exhibiting an error caused by the failure of the coin press to release the previous coin from the die before striking it. The design from the first coin is imprinted, sunken in reverse, on the second coin.
Brockage - A miss struck coin, generally one showing the normal design on one side and an incuse mirror image of this design on the other side.
Brockage
An error coin on which one side is struck correctly, however the other side is the incuse mirror image of this other side.
brockage
A mint error where a sharp incused image has been left on the next coin fed into the chamber.
bronze ...
brockage
A brockage is a Mint error, an early capped die impression where a sharp incused image has been left on the next coin fed into the coining chamber.
BROCKAGE
Formerly any misstruck coin, now specifically refers to a coin having one side approximately normal and the opposite side having the same design only as an incuse mirror image. Either obverse or reverse brockages can occur.
Brockage
a mis-strike resulting from a coin becoming lodged in the reverse, or upper die, during minting. The next coin would receive two obverse impressions; one from the obverse die; the other from the lodged coin.
Brockage - the reverse is an incuse representation of the obverse.
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Brockage
An error coin, usually bearing the expected design on one side with an incuse mirror image of the same design on the opposite side.
Bronze ...
Brockage
A PLANCHET which was struck while an un-ejected coin was still between the planchet and the DIE. The result was a mirrored (or INCUSE) image on the coin.
Bronze
An ALLOY of copper and tin.
A brockage is formed when a coin is not ejected from the press and remains in place while another planchet is struck. The result is that the first coin acts as a die for the second coin and makes an incuse impression of the exposed face.
"NCAPR" on brockage coins (Gallic mint Claudius sesterti)
GALBA countermark above cancelled NERCRPP countermark, also head left countermark ...
Note: Nice brockage with incuse of the top of Aurelian's portrait on reverse ...
Roman Moesia , uncertain city, Caracalla, AD 198-217, AE27. Emperor bust rt./ BROCKAGE of obv. design. Centered, clear portrait, cleaned with dark brassy orichalcum tone, slightly rough surfaces, legends weak, brockage clear, RARE, Fine....
Other Errors
Brockages Blank Planchet Capped Dies Die Cracks Double Die Counterbrockage
Indents Mated Pairs Mules Rotated Die Wrong Planchet Errors
Wisconsin State Quarter Errors ...
Pile-ups (brockages) can cause the center of the coin dies to "sink". When the dies sink it is like adding extra relief to fill in. Imagine a set of coin dies. the fields are flat (not domed). Each coin die has an image depth of say .005".
Brockage, Clashed Dies, Cuds, Die Chips & Cracks,
Multiple Strikes, Dropped Letters, Fold Strikes, Edge
Strikes, Indents, Laminated Planchets and Misaligned Dies,
just to name a few. These errors can be found even though the U.S. Mint ...
where dealers buy and sell coins with each other and the public, such as at a coin show broadstrike/broadstruck A coin struck without a firmly seated collar, resulting in "spreading" outwards, but still showing all design details brockage A ...
A brockage is an early form of mint error which results from the use of a previously-struck coin as a die.
11 Celtic, 265 G, 6 RR AE, 29 RR, 35 Brockages (plus 37 unpictured large lots of brockages), 144 RI (including 31 lots of Gordian III ex George His), 2 Visigothic, 23 Byz.
Gordian III (23)
V (2009, Jan 6) HV. HQP.
The next few coins become brockages and will be either two-headed or two-tailed, one side showing a transposed image courtesy of the stuck coin.
The Dictionary of Roman Coins definition and the line drawing example show a condition today called "brockage". One side of a brockage is stamped in, thus "incuse".
View whole page from the Dictionary Of Roman Coins ...
Sicily, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. Brockage Æ Litra. Period 1, 317-310 BC. SURAKOSIWN, wreathed head of Persephone left; poppy behind / Incuse of obverse.
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Calciati 102 ...
The process is no different than that which results in the many ancient brockage errors we see, and the technique was sometimes used in ancient times by ancient counterfeiters.
Western Satraps @ 2nd century AD, AR drachm - Brockage
Obv: head right.
Rev: Incuse head left (Definition of brockage).
ex Frank Robinson ...
The more strikes, the larger/taller the thimble-shaped coin becomes. Some of these thimble-shaped coins actually, eventually adhere to the hammer die and become what is called a die cap. This is what ultimately causes brockages and counter-brockages.
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casino tokens ...
371 ALGERIA, Mustafa IV. AH 1239. 5 Aspers. Brockage, holed in center. KM-71, Cr-90. VG $25
372---Alger Chamber of Commerce. 1918. 10¢ Token. KM-TnA5. BU $25 ...
Only one Irish coin made from that die has been discovered and that item has no date on the reverse but rather, the reverse contains a brockage, or inverse image, of the obverse! ...
occurs most commonly on coins which are relatively thin compared to their diameter, and have relatively high relief. British pennies of Edward VII and George V are particularly susceptible to ghosting. Not to be confused with a die clash or brockage, ...
 See also: Reverse, Revers, Coin, Struck, Obverse
  
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