Blurst of '98 +/-
1998 1C Triple Strike, Second and Third Strike Off

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1998 1C TS, Counter clash of TRUST in Second strike, second and third Strike Off Center The second strike has TRUST appearing in the field in front of Lincoln with the last T touching the 1 of the date and is thus unusual. A Type II counter-clash occurs when a die strikes a piece of hard metal. It could be a die fragment, a collar fragment, a stray nut, etc. The initial strike leaves a die-struck design on the metal fragment. The fragment then shifts position within the striking chamber and is struck again. The second strike transfers the design back to the die face (typically just the field portion). The die face now carries an incuse, mirror image version of the design. Every planchet coined after this will have raised normally-oriented design elements in an unexpected location. So, the first die was not the same as the second die as only the second has the counter clashed "TRUST".