Obverse die of LM-12, LM-13, and LM-14. Lightly cleaned with very light silvery gray surfaces. The incuse details of the brockage are quite weakly defined. This is an extremely important opportunity for the specialist, in half dimes or errors.

This obverse die was shared with varieties LM-12, 13, and 14.

A brockage occurs when two planchets meet in the coinage chamber. First a single planchet is fed into the press and struck as normal, however, the struck coin fails to be ejected or removed from a press. When another planchet is fed on top of the first, the obverse of the previously struck coin (or very rarely the reverse) serves as the new die. Since these details are raised on the coin, rather than incused as with a die, the second planchet is struck with a normal obverse and incuse impression of the obverse in place of the normal reverse.

Acquired in 1993 from Henry Hilgard.