Lot 810
1963 Jefferson Nickel Struck on 1¢ Planchet. AU-50. Full Brockage. 3.1 grams. A soft impression due to the insubstantial nature of the thinner cent blank with the five-cent dies set too far apart to impress the design fully. Outer legends crisp and clear including the date. This is an amazing double error, first, on the wrong planchet, then as a brockage!
The word "brockage" seems to invoke all kinds of mystery and exotic ideas in the minds of error collectors. 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, in this case an erroneous bronze planchet meant for a Lincoln cent! 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.
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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| Realized $1,208 |
