Hello All, Hope you can help me out here, I have a quater with george on the front and on the back it is struck with the dollar eagle, sounds crazy I know, but I found it in my change this afternoon. and was just wondering how rare this may be. Thanks
Welcome to CoinTalk. I'm not sure what you mean by a "dollar eagle". Please post some photos of the coin if you can.
Asbestosman, First, welcome to Coin Talk! Second, if the coin is genuine (i.e. not manipulated man-made) coin, then it should be worth quite a sum! What you may have is called a Mule $1.25 since it has a Quarter Obverse (Front) and Dollar Reverse (Back). Can you please provide some pictures of the coin and especially some close-ups of the rim looking from the front and from the back? Maybe we can determine if the coin is genuine or not and advise of the next steps to take! Frank
Hobo, I think that he means that the coin has a Quarter Obverse and a Sacagawea Dollar Reverse or a Susan B. Anthony Dollar Reverse! Frank
Yes, please post picks. From your description, it sounds like a mule, worth quite a premium, but we'll need to see pics to help you.
Are you sure the two photos are of the same coin? The obverse appears to be copper-nickel (like a normal quarter) and the reverse appears to be "golden" (like a normal Sac dollar). It the two photos are of the same coin AND if the coin is genuine it is what is known as a mule (a coin struck from obverse and reverse dies not intended to be used together) and would be worth a considerable sum of money. Does your coin have reeding or is the edge smooth? Is there any evidence of a seam on the edge? The reverse does appear to be a smaller diameter than it should be.
misstruck Quarter Hello All, Well after all the great comments, I took the coin and put it under my stereo microscope and looked for a seam, and soaked the coin in a bit of acetone, used my scalpel and was able to split the coin in half. Here are the pics.
Gesh!!! To bad....but, that would of been a kool MULE.....but oh well....cool find...and thanks for sharing story and photos
Way nice find. I was about to use a thousand words. But the photo...and the scalpel and a microscope say more. Why would someone spent $100 of labor and $1.25 of true coinage to make such a thing? I guess most such things come from some magician's bag of tricks? Anybody know?
I think you estimate the labor figure way too high. Someone with a little skill on a metal lathe could probably turn out a dozen of those an hour.
