George Washington Dollar , Upside Down Date? Right Side Up?

The collar date is added to the planchets before striking. So you have a 50/50 chance of getting one each way.

Thanks guys ,

been getting them alot latley , I look for rotated dies, obvious errors ,plain edges and stuff like that but never payed attention to the direction of the side letter before.

Now I know and into circulation thay go !

Just a slight clarification.

The coins are struck and are then passed through the edge lettering press where the lettering is then added.

So the coins are struck first and then the lettering is added.

In the case of the Washington dollars, the coins were struck , dropped into huge bins and then moved to an edge lettering press that was some distance from the coining press.

Today it is an automatic process so that right after the coins are struck they pass on, automatically, to the edge lettering press.

The coins pass through the edge lettering pres with no attention paid to the orientation of the coin, so 50% pass through one way and 50% pass through the other way:-)

Some grading companies label them as A or B depending upon the orientation.

Thanks,
Bill