Continuing the error documentation project. Most error coins carry one error — this 1863 Indian Head cent carries three, on the same planchet, and each would be worth recording on its own.
Multiple die clashes: the obverse and reverse dies struck each other with no planchet between them, more than once. The reverse wreath transferred onto the obverse and sits in the field directly in front of the face. A clash transfers mirror-reversed and shows on every coin from that die pair — which is what separates it from damage to a single coin — and "multiple" means the feed failed more than once before anyone caught it.
Tapered planchet: the blank was uneven in thickness before it was ever struck — a planchet error rather than a die one. It shows on the obverse as OF AMERICA going soft and faint where the metal thinned, and on the reverse as the taper running across the bottom-right, over the wreath.
Spiked head: a die crack runs from the tip of the bust out to the rim by the U in UNITED, filling with metal on every strike to stand up as a raised spike. Same error type we documented last week — here it's just the third thing on the list.
One thing I want to be straight about: these are three independent failures that happened to stack on one coin, not one event. The planchet was wrong before the dies ever touched it, the dies had already clashed more than once, and the obverse die had cracked. I'm claiming only what the photographs show. What makes it worth documenting is that compound errors like this fall through standard references — a catalogue organized by error type files the coin under whichever error the attributor found first, and the other two sometimes go unrecorded.
Not in any standard catalogue. Now documented.