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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1585398, member: 4626&quot;]I don&#039;t think so.&nbsp; Look at the first picture; that&#039;s a full strike off-center and with another planchet underneath it.&nbsp; You couldn&#039;t get that kind of effect with a vise, there wouldn&#039;t be nearly enough pressure to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but this is what I think happened:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin one gets a normal strike, is ejected from the chamber, but not completely.</p><p><br /></p><p>New planchet enters the chamber, gets struck by the dies... but also by coin one, that hasn&#039;t been ejected fully, resulting in coin 2 getting struck both by the dies and coin 1, and coin 1 getting a second partially off-center strike by the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Results in something like this that is easier to show than describe lol... the reversed impression is a result of getting hit by the reverse of the other coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case I don&#039;t think this is PMD and looks like a legitimate error.&nbsp; (The reverse impression can happen with a vice job, but the impression is way too deep here; it had to have been struck.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Value and rarity, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Depends on quality control at what I presume was the Santiago mint in 1933.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cool find though, especially when you have both coins that resulted from the error.&nbsp; Can tell you that the value of both of them together will be much higher than if you only had one, or the sum total of them separately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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