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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 735971, member: 66&quot;]From what I see it is definitely real!&nbsp; It is a full brockage piece and yes it is rather valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>What happened is the previous coin was struck but failed to edject from the press.&nbsp; The next planchet was fed in on top of the previously struck coin&nbsp;&nbsp; (The rev die was the hammer die in the press so the struck coin in the coining chamber was reverse up.)&nbsp; When the press cycled again the planchet of this coin was struck between the raised reverse of the coin in the chamber and the incuse reverse in the hammer die.&nbsp; Since the planchet was on top of the previous coin it was not down in the collar and so the reeded edge was not impressed into the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There you have it, a coin with the same design on both sides, one raised, one incuse, and a plain edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photos of incuse images can be tricky.&nbsp; The eye isn&#039;t used to seeing things that way and tries to make &quot;corrections&quot;.&nbsp; But a close examination of the lighting highlights does demonstrate that it is incuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>First note that both images are lit from the same direction.&nbsp; They are lit from below and this can be seen by the same shadowed area at the top of each image.&nbsp; Now the best place to look is the bottom leg of the L&#039;s in DOLLAR.&nbsp; In the first image the bottom leg is raised like a hill across a field.&nbsp; The side closest to the light sourse is lit and the far side is in shadow.&nbsp; This is exactly what the first image shows.&nbsp; Now in the second image the bottom leg is like a ditch running across that field.&nbsp; The side closest o the light is now in shadow and the far side of the ditch is well lit.&nbsp; Once again this matches the second image.&nbsp; Once you see this you can start extending it to other features on the coin and you will see that features that should be raised are well lit on the bottom edge in the first picture, but in shadow in the second with the far edge of that feature being well lit.&nbsp; Since the coin is lit from the 6:00 position this works best along that axis.&nbsp; Features at 9:00 and 3:00 do not show it as well[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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