Very interesting Double-struck 1965 Washington Quarter on Ebay

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• cladking Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 12, 2006 2:20PM

  
  
  << <i>I'm looking at the overlap of the second strike....should the "Y" in liberty on what appears to be the underlying strike be on top of the second strike?
  
  1965 Washington Quarter on Ebay >>
  
  
  
  No. The first strike was well off-center and the the second was nearly in the right place.
  
  The LIBERTY from the initial strike would have been wiped out except the depth of the die
  on Washington's head protected it. Much of the rest of the stike was obliterated. It looks
  right to me.

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• LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭

  March 12, 2006 2:35PM

  That is a very nice FAKE double strike.

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• cladking Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 12, 2006 2:39PM

  
  
  << <i>That is a very nice FAKE double strike. >>
  
  
  
  What am I missing?

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 12, 2006 2:43PM

  
  
  << <i>I'm looking at the overlap of the second strike....should the "Y" in liberty on what appears to be the underlying strike be on top of the second strike?
  
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  It is a fake error produced with false dies. Take a normal coin, squeeze it in a bench vise between two strips of aluminum to create impressions that look like dies, move the coin relative to the impressions and squeeze again. Some of the coin will form up into the impressions like a second strike, though there is so much distortion that you can always prove that the "Dies" were softer than the coin rather than hard steel.
  Tom D.

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• cladking Posts: 29,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 12, 2006 2:51PM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  It is a fake error produced with false dies. Take a normal coin, squeeze it in a bench vise between two strips of aluminum to create impressions that look like dies, move the coin relative to the impressions and squeeze again. Some of the coin will form up into the impressions like a second strike, though there is so much distortion that you can always prove that the "Dies" were softer than the coin rather than hard steel.
  Tom D. >>
  
  
  
  Thanks guys.

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