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Errors 1943 Small Cent. (1943) Steel Planchet. Reverse Brockage and Capped Die Error. About Uncirculated 50. <b>Matte-like finish. An unusual error since it occurs on one of the steel-planchet 1943 cents. The word "brockage" seems to invoke all kinds of mystery and exotic ideas in the minds of error collectors, explains the Margolis-Weinberg reference on America's error coins. Yet, it is one of easier error types to understand once some basic concepts are grasped. The heart of the subject is the fact that more than one coin is involved in the creation of a brockage error. One of the coins involved will always be one which has been struck in a coinage press and which has failed to be ejected properly. That struck coin will find its way back between the dies, or adhered to the upper (hammer) die, and in a later strike, become involved with another blank or struck coin. The result will be that the first (struck) coin will be forced into the next blank which was fed into the collar, and the images of that (first) struck coin will be impressed into that blank. The result will be a (second) coin, from that new blank which has images of the first coin impressed into it. Those images will be sunk into the coin and the image will be in reverse as though it was viewed through a mirror. This incuse (sunken) image is known as brockage. It will have come from that previously struck coin which jammed between the dies and the blank to create this unusual error type. The brockage error can be found in quite a few formats. They are distinctive and have individual names for each type. If that previously struck coin happens to land squarely on top of a new blank fed to the collar, and the dies strike the two together, the image of the entire surface of that first coin will be impressed into the new blank (which becomes the "second coin"). That second coin will have an incuse (sunken) image from that first coin all across its obverse, while the reverse will have received an essentially normal strike from the reverse die. Since the first coin effectively covered all of the obverse die, none of the design from the obverse die will be seen on the second coin. This combination is known as a full brockage or a mirror brockage, and is one of the more desirable brockage types sought by error coin collectors. The full brockage caused by a loose previously struck coin is totally unpredictable. It is conceivable that the loose coin may land on the second blank in any orientation. That is, it could be obverse up and reverse down, or the other way around. It depends entirely on how that loose coin traveled around the press during the time that the feeders were moving up and back and jostling that loose coin. It might flip over, or not. It is a totally random matter.</b> <p align="center">Superior Galleries was founded in 1929 and has been a leader in
the numismatic auction business since 1971.</p> <p align="center"><b>Consignments wanted for June 2 & 3, 2002 Pre-Long Beach Sale.</b></p> <p align="center"><b>Call Steve Deeds</b> at (800) 421-0754 ext 230.</p>
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