Caped die or brockage

[CarolinaGent]

Not sure the date is really not visible and the back of the vent is clear or very legible. Is this a caped die or brockage

[mustbebob]

It is neither. The coin is badly worn.

[MintErrors]

I whole-heartedly agree. A die cap would have had super high walls and most look like antique paper bottle bottle cap. Some people say a thimble, but I have never seen on shaped that way. It is a planchet stuck on a die, and it's still attempting to make coins.

https://minterrors.org/wp-content/up...-1-300x238.jpg

Brokerages are a cousin to a die cap that die cap still has a die that is not capped. If it is able, it will strike that image onto the bottom side of that capped die. A unsuspecting planchet come along and gets struck by this odd combination. That unsuspecting planchet will get struck with two of the same dies, an obverse or a reverse. One would be a bacwards mirror image. Since the capped die is involved.

https://minterrors.org/wp-content/up...er-768x422.jpg

There is a good read by Margolis on minted errors. He explains the entire minting process back in the day, and gives a pretty good theory on how those mintberrors were created.