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Collector Waits Years to Learn Error’s Story
After 47 years of ownership, Edgar Murphy of South Carolina decided finally to find out exactly what kind of error he’d purchased as a youth back in 1960. He contacted me by e-mail and made arrangements to send his error coin in for examination.
It turned out to be a rather neat 1954-S Roosevelt dime that was double struck in-collar with the second strike flipped over, what is referred to simply as a “Double Struck Flip Over” in error collector parlance.
Portions of the reverse show through the obverse design and the portions obverse show through the reverse design. The effect is a composite of both designs with the second strike dominating.
An interesting diagnostic of in-collar double strikes is that more than 99 percent of them fail to be forced all the way back down into the collar for the second strike. This is due to very slight expansion of the coin after it is ejected from the collar; after ejection it is too large to fit back in to the collar and needs to be forced in by the strike. Read Full Story
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