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New Member
United States
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I recently found a 2004 texas State Quarter which has what appears to be a Roosevelt dime stamped into the front and the back of it. On the back of the coin, dead center of the coin, you can see the circular outline of the dime, with ates of america . ME(it is in reverse) on it...my first thought was that someone hammered a dime into the back of it, but the front of the quarter has the same circle on the front, in the same spot, as if the quarter was struck with what suppose to be struck on a dime. On the front of the coin you can see roosevelts neck...also you can still make out washington and the state of texas on the back of the quarter...I know its tough without a picture, but was just wondering if coins like this do exist from the mint, with a dime being struck on both sides of a quarter, or would this have to be something done outside of the mint. Thanks for any responses! |
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Moderator
 United States
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Welcome to CCF. We would really need to see a photo of it to answer your question.
John1 
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Valued Member
United States
499 Posts |
I'm going to say post mint damage based on the fact that a quarter sized planchet can't fit into the equipment made to mint dimes. A larger size coin can be minted on a smaller sized planchet but not the other way around
Richard
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Washington and the State of Texas (the Lone Star, maybe?) on the same side of the quarter?
Yep, gonna need a photo (or a scan would work nicely) of that one. Both sides, please.
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Moderator
 United States
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No photo needed but they are fun anyways
Reversed letters says only one thing.....vise job. The 2 coins were smashed or pressed together. Most of the time for fun but some people falsely pass them off as errors when they are not.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Vice squeezed if the devices on all the surface is showing. If just partial a hammer job  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You mention the dimes lettering is reversed on the back of the quarter, I bet the dime lettering is also reversed on the obv of the quarter as well. Take a stack of coins dime,quarter,dime and smack it hard with a hammer. There you go.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I missed "ME (it is in reverse)", but I'd still like to see "washington and the state of texas on the back of the quarter". I agree now, though -it sounds like a vise or hammer job to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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not a possible error.
It can only happen with a small to a larger size.
eg: dime to cent, cent to nickel, nickel to quarter.
so, a larger (quarter) could not be struck by a dime die.
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I informed the seller it was not real and he sold it anyway. Crook!
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New Member
United States
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Hey CCF, recently I found this quarter that come out of a car wash change machine, which more than likely come from a roll of quarters from the bank, but thats just my guess because the quarter was graded as (AU)...anyway this is a 2001-D New York State Quarter with a 2006-D Roosevelt dime (head side) stamped on the headside of the quarter. On the back side of the quarter there are markings unrecognizable. I will post a picture ASAP so you can see the remarkable detail this error is. Looking through an eyeloop you can see clearly and detailed the initials JS underneath the neckline of Roosevelt's head on the quarter. This image is pushed in the quarter like someone could have placed two coins together and done whatever, but that takes over 400,000 pounds of pressure let alone taken two images and doing this would only produce a smudge of images and if you know anything about metals you would now this, so that theory is impossible to produce such quality on this quarter I have, you can see each hair line, the ear, the date, this error is pristine.BBASAP |
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Posted 06/30/2010 4:58 pm
