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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2096855, member: 66&quot;]Yes there are at least four of them.&nbsp; One is a two headed 1859 indian head cent.&nbsp; The others are three Washington quarters with two reverses that came out of the San Francisco Mint in the 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; The Indian is theorized to have been the result of an obverse die blank that got turned down to the shape of a reverse die and paired with another obv die.&nbsp; (Probably with help from a mint employee)&nbsp; The quarters came from the mint during a time when a lot of deliberate errors were being produced at the S mint, so they were almost certainly done deliberately as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The major reason coins like this can&#039;t occur without help is because after the dies are hubbed they are put in a lathe and cut to the proper shape.&nbsp; Anvil dies have a long neck so the can push the coin up out of the collar after striking.&nbsp; Hammer dies have a short neck.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you put to hammer dies in the press the planchet is too far down in the collar for the hammer die to reach it.&nbsp; And even if it can the short necked hammer die in the anvil position is too short to push the coin up and out of the collar.</p><p><br /></p><p>If two anvil dies are put in the press it can strike the coin just fine, but after the hammer die retracts, because of its long neck there isn&#039;t enough clearance between the hammer die and the top of the collar for the feed fingers to push the coin away.&nbsp; Also once the reverse die rises the coin is now again caught between the dies and can&#039;t be pushed aside.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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