Quote: interesting piece here. I struggle to see how 2 cent dies were able to be placed so close together and then struck on this Ike.
Read the OP. Most likely in a coining press. (This is Mike Diamond's opinion from Facebook.)
There was an entire collection of this type of stuff found abandoned in California. It was inspected by the federal government and deemed legal to own so it was auctioned off.
The video in the above link is the interview of Fred Weinberg by Seth Chandler.
Fred's recollection of his conversations in his office, with the Chief of the U.S. Mint Police, are extremely insightful and explain why the Mint doesn't attempt to recover error coins from decades ago.
It's 20 minutes long and is an excellent interview of Fred Weinberg and some of his error coin adventures.
For those exploring when dual and quad presses were introduced, all I can tell you is that saddle (tandem) strikes on cents go back to at least 1949. Perhaps 1948.
Very interesting, but even if I had the money I'd have zero interest in owning any error that was intentionally created. To me, even though it was created at the mint, I consider it comparable to a coin with PMD. Though, from the money spent on these types of "errors" I see that many people feel otherwise!
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