1974 Washington quarter with both sides head? Fake or Real?

Put it in a small wooden box and shake vigorously. It should split open but this method dosent always work though depending on how tight the seal on the two halves are

 

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http://www.ebay.com/gds/Double-Sided-Coins-What-are-they-really-/10000000016284388/g.html

 

Ill try that method once I get home. Also, do you think If I lift the side of the coin I could try ripping off one of the face? I mean if this was truly fake I would see it falling apart very easily right?

 

Yeah I read about the magician's coins as well as searched everywhere for the same one but I think this one had to be made by someone between the years of 1974 to 1989 because my parents had this coin stored away from 1990 to 2016.

 

I've seen good milling machine operators do some real classy work am talking old school not the new computerized ones everything those operators did it by eye and hand

 

Wonder if NFL refs ever use those?

 

I wonder why people dont consider counterfeit money as a former of art because not any normal person could pull off stuff like this

 

Faking a Picasso and selling it as real is not art. It is a criminal offense. Why should counterfeit coins be treated differently?

One could argue on that basis that Willie "The Actor" Sutton was an artist, instead of a bank robber.

 

True...I just thought it still takes skills to craft something like coins

 

Someone put the link to a video on how a guy makes these....can't remember where that's at tho.

 

Heck no. I have one that's so perfectly machined I really have to fight it sometimes to get it open

 

True for sure. The tragedy is that talent isn't being put to good use.

 

To get them apart, get one of these and see if it works. This one is for a half dollar. You can probably make one by drilling a hole in a piece of wood that is just slightly smaller than the diameter of your coin.

http://www.magictricks.com/bang-ring.html

 

Found it...

 

Awesome time for some popcorn

 

Okay I finally found a lead that might have confused me more than ever...

I decided to re-weigh my coin on a scale and it came out to 5.22-5.23 grams. After remembering that a quarter should weigh roughly 5.75 grams, I wanted to know how many grams one side of a 1974 quarter weighed on only its obverse side...

I came across this little information that a member named coppertop5150 on coincommunity.com had shared...

Someone found a quarter that weighed 1 gram less and had this awkward tinny sound (just like mine). Link is below:

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=84034

 

There is a double-headed 1859 Indian cent: http://www.coinfacts.com/patterns/1859_patterns/judd_229A.htm

My guess is it's probably the work of the Midnight Minter.

 

Indeed......