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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 132280, member: 4626"]Well let me correct "impossible" to "almost impossible" lol. With existing equipment it would require one of the dies to be keyed wrong, for the error in keying the die not to get noticed, and for quality control to miss the error after coins had been stamped before it had a chance to leave the Mint. Odds would be nearly astronomical. However... a mule where a qaurter obverse was accidentally used on Sacagaweas did manage to leave the mint in 2000... the error was caught but 3 coins were discovered that managed to get out of the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far only 4 US two-tailed coins have been discovered and authenticated (3 qaurters and a dime) but there have been a few world coins discovered with two heads or two tails. Still it's an extremely rare occurence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 132280, member: 4626"]Well let me correct "impossible" to "almost impossible" lol. With existing equipment it would require one of the dies to be keyed wrong, for the error in keying the die not to get noticed, and for quality control to miss the error after coins had been stamped before it had a chance to leave the Mint. Odds would be nearly astronomical. However... a mule where a qaurter obverse was accidentally used on Sacagaweas did manage to leave the mint in 2000... the error was caught but 3 coins were discovered that managed to get out of the Mint. So far only 4 US two-tailed coins have been discovered and authenticated (3 qaurters and a dime) but there have been a few world coins discovered with two heads or two tails. Still it's an extremely rare occurence.[/QUOTE]
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