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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2675482, member: 112&quot;]I understand the point you&#039;re making, but it doesn&#039;t &quot;have&quot; to be that way. And not all are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a picture taken from the US Mint website of how dies are made - start to finish.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]596648[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That picture shows both obverse (top row) and reverse (bottom row), with the finished product on the far right. And yeah they&#039;re different, but it&#039;s pretty plain to see there&#039;s not a whole lot of difference between the two. And those same dies were first used by the US Mint as early as 1965, and as late as 1999 - this is documented. My point being they had a press capable of using them for at least that entire time frame. And the coin we are talking about, the nickel, is a 2000 - right in the ball park.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question still remains, could 2 obv or 2 rev dies be used ? From looking at those I&#039;d have to say yes. Could I be wrong, yeah maybe. But I might be right too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ll grant you those dies are test dies, that is well known. And there are coins that exist that came from those dies, certified, documented, slabbed. So maybe, just maybe, this 2 headed nickel also came from similar test dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>All I&#039;m saying Dave is that the possibility exists. Personally, I suspect the coin came about as a result of deliberate action. But even if it did, that still doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s not a genuine US Mint product - just like those Martha Washington coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it&#039;s also possible it was contrived and made by somebody outside the mint. In any case, we can only speculate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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