double headed Kennedy half dollar

I'm still astounded that they actually exist.

Given the way that the dies fit the press, how do these happen, @GDJMSP ?

 

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"slightly weakly struck"... LMBO

 

Strike issues. Clearly something went horribly wrong for that to exist but the grade is kind of meaningless, it's more just saying it is Uncirculated and becomes a ranking system if another ever popped up

 

"slightly weakly struck"

To produce a train-wreck like that, I can imagine almost anything. Two obverse dies, a planchet stuck in a piece of pipe, and a sledgehammer, while somebody else stood watch and/or took care of the security cameras...

 

That link doesn't work anymore.

 

That I did not know. Cool info.

 

No.

No possibility.

 

This thread is from 2002.. This member has not been seen since October 2002

 

And look what just tonight turned up on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/TWO-HEADED...2-Obverse-Dies-PCGS-MS-65-UNIQUE/273180885732

 

What can I say?

I read a question, I answer the question.

 

"Although slightly weakly struck..." slightly???? LOL

 

1964 Kennedy double headed coin weighs 12.4 grams and .43 oz

 

As you can see in the second photo the circumference is slightly smaller than the first. It has been machined down, and the first coin hollowed out, and the second coin placed inside, to create a 2 headed coin. If you look for a seam, or try to pry them apart you will probably see that there were 2 coins hollowed/cut in half to make this.

 

The obverse and reverse dies have different attachment hardware to prevent that very thing from happening. The odds therefore are zero.

 

Not quite zero. (Link goes to story with video, starring our very own @Fred Weinberg.) But close enough to zero.

 

Nice. But it isn’t really a “legitimate” error:

“Something that shouldn’t happen, but apparently did at the hands of some enterprising mint workers.”

 

If it came out of Mint equipment, it's apparently "legitimate enough" for the TPGs, and for enough collectors to constitute a market. I don't much like it either, but I'm not sure what to do about it (or, for that matter, those 1913 V-nickels).