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No Date 2C Two Cent Piece--Full Brockage Obverse

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:14,500.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
No Date 2C Two Cent Piece--Full Brockage Obverse
<B>No Date 2C Two Cent Piece--Full Brockage Obverse and Reverse Die Cap--MS64 Brown PCGS.</B></I> This is a combination of two error types, the brockage and the capped die. A brockage involves two planchets and two cycles of the coin press. The first planchet is fed into the press and struck in the normal manner, but it sticks to the upper die when the next planchet is fed in. The second planchet receives the normal image from the anvil die, and a reversed and incused image from the first coin. Both pieces are then ejected. The second planchet is now an error coin called a brockage.<BR> A capped die is created when a coin is struck and then sticks to the hammer die. As it strikes additional planchets, the hammer die makes the impression stronger and stronger, as the actual planchet spreads up the outside of the die shaft. Normally, the inside of the capped die piece is an extremely sharp impression of that die, and the outside is a widely spread brockage image.<BR> This piece has the brockage image inside of the cap, and the sharp normal reverse impression on the outside. It is the opposite of a normal die cap, and must have been created through additional steps, where the brockage image eventually became the die cap. <BR> Remarkably well preserved with rich chocolate-brown surfaces and full luster. Undoubtedly destined for a world-class error collection, and certain to be the source of substantial discussion and amazement.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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