1 Cent Printed Upside Down On A Quarter

Welcome to CCF Zenno, too bad this was your first find. Keep checking your change and you'll find something eventually!

Anyway, you probaly want to know why this can't happen. For a coin to be struck (at least in North America,)it must fit inside the collar. The collar is a round piece of metal with a hole its center. Think of a doughnut. The hole is the exact same diameter as the coin which is being struck.
In order for the coin to be struck, it must fit into the collar. If it doesn't, it will not reach the dies and will never be struck.

Your coin appears to be a quarter that has been struck with the design for a penny. In order for this to happen, the quarter would have to get underneath penny dies, which could not occur, because it would be too big. Also, if it HAD been struck with penny dies, it would have the penny design on both sides, and the design would be facing the proper way, as it appears on a normal penny.

The design on yours is only on one side, and it is a mirror image. This means that an already-struck coin must have been pressed into it in some way. If this were done using a hammer, or even a press, there would probably be some damage to the other side. Since yours does not have this, I think that someone probably put glue on the coin and pressed a penny onto it.

I hope this helps you, Zenno, and anyone else who might read it. A little information never hurt anyone!


-oddcoins

I may have too much faith on human nature. I think many of these PMDs are made just for the fun of it, not for profit. A few are made for the artistry, the "Calgary Shop" comes to mind - an 'artist' who has all the equipment needed to create incredible errors, some of them certified by a TPG.

Error collecting is expensive, not only for the prices of the real errors, but for how much we pay for our mistakes: I keep in my collection a twoonie (my speciality) with a varnish blob on the reverse core - a $100 "lesson"

Yes IF (big IF) you stop the press, open the collar, place the planchet, strike the coin, and remove the "error" from the bed.