coin with dime on one side and penny on the other

Hey all! It's been a while since I posted on here but I have a facebook friend who has held on to a coin for many years because she found it in some change as a cashier at Walmart. Anyway, here are a few pictures of the coin. She is curious if it's the real deal! Please add your input!

Thanks!

 

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Magicians coin or just some person experimenting. It's worth maybe 11 cents, since it's both a dime and penny.

 

Somebody went through a lot of labor to make a fantasy coin like that. It is not a mint error. Probably a pair of coins ground down and glued together.

 

These penny on a dimes are becoming much more common these days.

 

Okay, thanks for all of your replies thus far! Can any of you explain why this is not a mint error? Like why it could not happen at the mint? I would like to explain it to her so she dont think im just another wise guy who says, "its counterfeit" without saying WHY it's counterfeit. No offense....

Thanks again!

 

how are they the same size?

 

the cent is smaller

 

Lol, that's what I was wondering.....

 

Did she find it as a dime or penny?

 

It could not happen at the mint because cents and dimes are made of two completely different planchets as evident by the fact that the coin in question has copper on one side and nickel on the other. Your coin was made by machining half of the thickness off of each coin then gluing the two halves together.

 

DON'T say the words "11 cents" in this forum, don't you know what might happen?! :rollling:

 

Real smooth, now it will be in google searches.

 

I'm surprised it lasted this long without a hi-jack.

 

Maybe he's in jail?

 

You can tell it is not a mint error because it is copper on one side and clad on the other. A true (10+1) cent error coin would either be completely copper or completely clad on both sides.

 

What if it was a double error and was missing it's copper layer on the side that was struck as a dime? Just playing devil's advocate over here lol

 

That would be one valuable coin

I'm not sure that it would be possible though. When coins are struck at the mint, isn't the obverse struck at the same time as the reverse? If so, it would be nearly impossible to have a only a dime on one side and only a penny on the other.

 

It's rare but its happened. They're called mules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(coin)

 

The collars used to strike dimes and cents are different diameters. It is highly unlikely a cent die would be muled with a dime die and dime collar, especially with no other known examples. The odds would be incredibly small that that mule arrangement (cent die, dime die and dime collar) would then strike a coin on an error planchet with a cupro-nickel clad layer over a pure copper core on one side and bronze on the other side. The odds would be even less (50% less to be exact) that that mule arrangement (cent die, dime die and dime collar) would then strike a coin on an error planchet with a cupro-nickel clad layer over a pure copper core on one side and bronze on the other side with the cupro-nickel and bronze sides oriented properly.

 

Waaaaaiiiit for it..... :devil: