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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1712101, member: 66&quot;]A mutilated coin made by impressing it with false dies.&nbsp; Press a coin into a piece of brass it creates an incuse reversed impression and it work hardens the brass.&nbsp; Then press another coin with this false die and it raises a weak raised correctly oriented impression of the coin.&nbsp; Since the work hardened brass is still softer than the coin metal it does not wipe out the impression on the coin.&nbsp; In this case the coin has been pressed between false dies of several denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice idea but it wouldn&#039;t work.&nbsp; Error coins didn&#039;t come into their own until the late fifties/early sixties.&nbsp; before that time they were considered to be just so much junk and thinks like major off-centers, double strikes&nbsp; etc, were frequently just consigned to the trash can.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there were a few error collectors back then but they were very few so even major errors were worth a pittance.&nbsp; Definitely not worth risking a good paying job at the mint or prison time for theft of government property during the Depression.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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