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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 121182, member: 4373&quot;]Sorry, it makes no sense to me except being a counterfeit. When a double strike or overstrike occures, most of the time, the top layer is flatten, which in this case, Washington&#039;s hair, and probably his forehead, neck etc. How on earth with a flat plane of the die NOT flatten such details? </p><p><br /></p><p>Another major issue seems to be that the flow of the metal looks very abnormal, if you are to compare the &quot;double struck&quot; region against the single struck region. It seems that it has been &quot;acidified&quot;, probably a light coating of acid on a fake die so that it would be easy to work on the silver quarter. </p><p><br /></p><p>While I have been studying Russian overstruck coins for a period of time, the theory is very simple - when the flat plane of the die strikes any coin, whatever details that were there usually flattens out and leaves an outline, except two, which is when the planchet was not even in the first place, or the die was not struck at the right angle. The only time when most of the details remain is when the &quot;gorged out&quot; section of the die leaves some space, and hence, leaves some sort of &quot;impression&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>In this particular case, I don&#039;t see any unusual feature of the second strike as not struck in the right angle or abnormal planchet, unless you say that the coin is bent in some odd manner. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same goes to the reverse and so far I think I am more than convienced that you are holding onto an attempt of a double struck coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps you should bring that to another coin dealer and ask his opinion since we cannot get an accurate view from pictures alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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