Lot 2160

Double Struck, Partial Brockage, Partial Collar. Light gray surfaces with minor abrasions. An intriguing multiple error that was illustrated on the cover of Errorscope magazine.

Essentially, one struck coin was partially on top of a blank planchet when this coin was struck. The reversed brockage image from the first struck coin appears in the indented area of the second including the outline of dentils within the arc across Liberty's drapery. Evidence of additional double striking is in the form of dentils visible along the perimeter of this example. This was also a partial collar illustrated by a blank area of the edge toward the obverse, with normal edge reeding toward the reverse. The struck coin, on top of the planchet, did not permit the collar to reach its final position at the time of striking.

This was the cover coin for Errorscope, Volume 11, Number 3, May-June 2002 issue. An associated article in the same addition of Errorscope, by Frank Leone, discussed this coin based on his examination of a photograph and not the actual coin. This article is reprinted with permission of CONECA:

"This issue's cover coin comes by way of the large group of photos donated to CONECA by Coin World. The coin itself is credited to Rich Schemmer who is a former CONECA president and now a major dealer in rare error coins.

"Bust Dime errors are considered very scarce to rare. I have seen some off-centers and some double-struck in collar pieces but this is the first brockaged indent that I have seen.

"This error occurs when an already struck coin lands on top of the blank planchet and then both are sandwiched together by the impact of the hammer die against the anvil die.

"As is common on indent errors, this coin also displays a partial collar as shown in the photograph below [in the magazine]. The partial collar is caused by both the added pressure of having two coins in the coining chamber at one time and the fact that the mis-strike causes problems with the collar alignment. Because of the collar malfunction, a raised lip of metal extends around most of the coin and bears no reeding details on this lip. Partial collars come in two major varieties, the tilted partial collar and the level partial collar. As the names imply, the tilted examples show the lip on an angle sort of like a ramp going up the edge of the coin. This coin is more of a level partial collar and resembles a single railroad track [rim] along the edge."