Lot 482
1944 Reverse Brockage. ANACS graded AU-55. The word "brockage" seems to invoke all kinds of mystery and exotic ideas in the minds of error collectors. 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.
Estimated Value $200 - 250.
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| Realized $805 |
