Coin Terminology and Glossary

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Selected title: Brockage
Explanation: A mirror image of the design from one side of a coin impressed on the opposite side. Occasionally, a newly struck coin 'sticks' to a die, causing the next coin struck to have a First Strike Mirror Brockage of the coin stuck to the die; by the second strike the mirror is distorted, and later strikes are termed Struck Through A Capped Die

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