Same side coin

this coin has the same image on both sides, 1908, any ideas

 

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Probably a Magician's coin. Look at the edge and you can tell.

 

What am I suppose to look for on the edge?

 

A seam.

 

It's Reeded all around

 

Looks a token of some kind.
It's a crude cartoon version of St. George slaying a dragon, as you'd see on a sovereign. But I doubt it was meant to fool anyone.

 

Usually if it is a magical coin the evidence will be seen on the rim not on the edge. They will cut one side out on a lathe out to the rim then cut a piece from a different coin to just fit inside the cut out. If there is a seam it will show under magnification on the rim not the edge. If that makes sense.

 

looks like a seam all around the rim in first pic...

 

So this coin may not be real?

 

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Not here.

 

It's real. Just made by someone out of two coins. They have value.

 

Wow!! I would have never known, thanks Homner for taking the time to school me, and everyone one else as well, Thanks Again

 

it ain't real.

It should have been gold, I believe

 

Damn Homner - I been mispronouncing your CT name for a long time!

 

No, it is definitely not real. It appears to be a very crudely produced copy, probably for a magicians trick as mentioned earlier.

Sometimes, higher quality pieces are made by taking 2 genuine coins and carefully machining them, then fitting the pieces together to create a same-sided coin. However, the original pieces this was modeled from were gold - and would have thus been quite expensive.

 

Holding a coin by the face with your fingers? "Bad boy, bad boy, what ya gonna do..."

 

British merchant tokens carried this same design. So it can still be a real coin not made of gold.

 

Yeah, maybe some kind of trick coin but not "Heads I win tails you lose" as who knows what are heads on that coin/token/jewelry piece/???

 

Please explain to me how a magic coin can not be a real magic coin. People make fake magic coins?