So ridiculously obviously fake that the question doesn't even deserve asking. (sorry, that might have come across as harsh. It wasn't intended to be mean). It appears that the dime was literally hammered into the reverse of the quarter. The flat area on the obverse of the quarter is where it rested on a surface and received the impact of the blows.
It's fake, or rather real but been made. I tried to find the link to the thread, but someone posted one within the last month or two where they had someone come to their coin club and show how they smashed one coin into another.
Would have been better if the coins were both the same date. Second thought is it wouldn't make a difference. Fake is fake and you can't shine shxx. lol
@BigTee44 There was a thread created yesterday concerning the same coin in question https://www.cointalk.com/threads/alrighty-then-dime-on-quarter.282736/#post-2497764
To take this in a serious direction: The fourth obvious clue is that this error is not physically possible (even if the date were the same). It is not possible for a quarter planchet to fit into the dime striking chamber: the only legitimate "coin struck on another planchet" or "coin struck over another denomination" errors will *always* be struck on a planchet of a smaller diameter. Thus, you will find Half Dollars struck on Quarter planchets (or overstruck quarters), but you will *never* find a legitimate quarter struck on a half dollar planchet. If you find one, it was created illegitimately. Similarly, you can find quarters struck on dime planchets, but *never* a dime struck on a quarter.
That's what I don't get. I don't get how it was done. Like it looks like a die was stamped into one side of the coin. I'm not into errors and that's what I thought was how would this happen. PMD or an actual error.
how... could they have possibly put the coin on a flat surface, and hammered the dime in, leaving it only on that side?
No actual Dime was hammered into the Quarter. This is a case of a fake Dime Die hammered into a real Quarter. You can see that it was struck twice because of the double imaged Dime. Biggest question is how someone got a hold of an Obverse Dime Die or how it was made!
seems pretty realistic for a home made die... either someone got their hands on one somehow, or someone is pretty dang crafty...
It was sold on Ebay for over $200.00 Someone just lost lots of money and they will probably lose even more when they send it off to a TPG!
If you work in a machine shop you have plenty of machinery to choose from to do a job like this. A heavy duty press would be my first guess.
Probably just your average variety transfer die. That explains the screwed up profile heights on the dime bust (look at Roosies nose and chin area) and the messed up looking rims of the dime.
