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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 1502035, member: 6229"]Hand you just about any coin and you can tell you which side is heads (the obverse) and which side is tails (the reverse), but what about the second striking of the 1936 Arkansas Centennial one dollar coin?   Arkansas Centennial dollars were struck from 1935 through 1939 (P, D, and S) . On the obverse (heads side) is artist's Edward Everett Burr's rendition of an eagle and on the reverse (tails side) are accolated heads of an 1836 Indian and a girl dressed in 1936 garb. In 1936 each of the mints (Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco) made Arkansas Centennial dollars. Philladelphia struck 9,660, Denver struck 9,662 and San Francisco struck 9,660 coins with the same design scheme as the 1935 coin. But, Congress couldn't leave well-enough-alone. They decided the coin needed a new reverse and mandated that by the Act of June 26, 1936. Senator J. T. Robinson gave his permission to allow a portrait of him to be used on the coin's reverse. Philadelphia struck a mere 25,265 of these "head-is-tails" dollar coins. None were struck by the other mints. This was a precedent in American coinage, but not a precedent in other countries.  Probably the most well-known of these are the 2-Reichsmark and 5-Reichsmark silver coins of Third Reich Germany. In 1933 Martin Luther was added to the reverse of a 2-Reichsmark piece (KM79) and a 5-Reichsmark coin (KM80). In 1934 Schiller was added to some of both denominations (KM84 and KM85). The 1936 through 1939 2-Reichsmark coins (KM93) received the huge facial image of Paul Von Hindenburg as did the 1934 through 1939 5-Reichsmark coins (KM86).Clinker[/QUOTE]

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