Error Other | Mirror brockage on reverse-how ?

[Maineman750]

just looking for an explanation on how this one happens :http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=120483396803


I guess I should explain that I wonder why it is not incuse ?

[amosamos16]

I'm not a error guy, nor could tell you what caused it, but boy I do like it. That's something I've never seen. The 195,000 they want for it seems about 194,500 to much. LOL

[Magers]

I want to know how it was circulated for so long... xf is quite a bit of circulation for a nickel with two heads.

[jnesbitt82]

The seller has quite a few negative feedback messages.

[Rollem]

Obviously it would need to have 2 obverse dies.
If so why the mirror image of motto?

I don't believe it but like it.

[coppercoins]

A reverse brockage happens when a coin is struck and sticks to the reverse die. The next coin minted (like this one) would have an incuse obverse on the reverse and a normal obverse...struck with the obverse of a coin and the obverse die.

Although it may not seem so, the design on this coin is incuse. I can tell by the lighting and the rest of the slab.

It's real, no question.

[Maineman750]

Although it may not seem so, the design on this coin is incuse. I can tell by the lighting and the rest of the slab.

Thanks...and that's answer I was looking for..it just did not look incuse.

[Rollem]

just looking for an explanation on how this one happens :http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=120483396803


I guess I should explain that I wonder why it is not incuse ?

I am with you Roger it doesn't look incuse to me.

If they will send it to me for and in hand look

I think the price is incuse.

James

[liveandievarieties]

Crazy price, way crazy, but it's the real deal. Chuck stole all my words, but I've seen these, we're just so used to the design that what we see is familiar and our brain automatically assumes.

XF because it may have been carried as a pocket piece after being found. I've seen amazing errors that people just carried around and handled for years, not being "error coin folk".

[jcuve]

These first strike mirror brokages are amazing. This coin, if I recall correctly, has been on eBay at that absurd price for several years...

[GrumpyEd]

To make it more confusing I think it's in the holder with the brockage rev on the front of the slab.
Or am I confused?

It's amazing that the brockage image is so well detailed. I would have thought that the coin and the blank being equal hardness would result in a mushy looking brockage but this one is really detailed and clear.