Ok, I've been searching through a 5000 count bag of wheaties all day and came upon this....PLEASE tell me this is real and my eyes aren't deceiving me! It's a double headed coin with a 45 degree rotation. The one side is dated 1930 and the other is dated 1941. There's no way for me to shoot both sides at once so you'll have to take my word for it. ANY info is greatly appreciated!
You can show both sides at once by propping it up over, or in front of, a mirror. More than likely, it is a magician's coin made by gluing two halves together. Chris
Look at the edge of the coin to see if you can see a seam. If not, look on each side for an almost invisible seam right inside the rim. Magician coin, demonstration of lathe skills, whichever, it is a postmint made object. There are several threads on the forum, but I can't remember if one with different years. Impossible to occur in the mint as the 2 dies are not interchangeable in the holders. J
If there is no seam along the edge look just inside the rim. Many magician coins are made by removing one side of the coin using a lathe (which leaves a 'pie shell'). Another coin is planed down and the rims removed. The two pieces are assembled to create what appears to be a coin with two heads (or tails). Even though it is fake it is still a pretty cool find.
This had to have been made a long time ago b/c there appears to be a faint seam that is completely smoothed over. Even moving it back and forth under a light there's no indentations or ridges..it is completely smooth. oh well, that sucks. Thanks for the info anyway : )
The must have it down (or made in sweat shops) because they sell for only about $20 or less: http://www.thefind.com/apparel/info-sided-coin
That was some good work. The best ones I have seen are routed out right along the inside edge of the collar and the next coin os reduced and fitted into that. Nearly undetectable. It's a cool find for sure. gary
Even before you look for a dubious seam, the first thing that should dawn on you is the utter impossibility of this occurring. It couldn't be a 1930 piece with an inadvertently struck "1941 obverse" reverse because that is blatantly anachronistic; as for it being struck in 1941, the odds that some errant 1930 die found its way into the anvil component of the press is undefinable because it is impossible. This is, however, one of the coolest finds anyone could find in my opinion; the specimen is well put together and seemingly anomalous even in the oddball industry of affixing two halves of two coins together... never seen it on something as old a wheatie but, hey, if there's a will... Even having pointed out the impossibility of this thing's validity, I think my heart would have exploded from the sheer sublimity of finding something such as this while roll searching! I love the weird stuff that comes up on this site!
