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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2482666, member: 66&quot;]Looks like a &quot;soft die&quot; fake multi-strike coin.&nbsp; Not a real error, someone either playing around or deliberately creating a fake error.&nbsp; You take a coin and press it into something like a brass plate.&nbsp; The plate takes and impression of the coin and in doing so become workhardened.&nbsp; The brass plate can now act as a &quot;soft&quot; die.&nbsp; You take the coin move it a bit and force it into the plate again.&nbsp; The soft die will raise a slight impression on the coin but it is too soft to wipe out the original design as a regular steel die would.&nbsp; The brass plate will also pick up a fainter secondary impression from the coin.&nbsp; Press a new coin into that soft die and the resulting coin will show its regulars strike and two fainter raised impressions, making it look like a triple strike.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1950&#039;s and 60&#039;s error coin collecting was not popular in the US either.&nbsp; (It was even worse in earlier years when collectors often consigned error coins to the trash can.) They even had a general term for errors,&nbsp; FIDO&#039;s&nbsp; (Freaks, Irregular, Defective, Oddities)&nbsp; In others words &quot;dogs&quot;.&nbsp; VERY few US collectors were interested in errors back then.&nbsp; Great Britain may be at the same stage now that the US was then.&nbsp; Who knows in 20 years they may be very interested in error coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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