1945 s Lincoln Lincoln

So here I am tediously rechecking all my discarded Lincoln wheats to make sure I haven't missed anything important, and maybe save some as can be graded as circulated AG, G, VG, etc.

Then I get to this one... and you can probably guess... my heart stopped.
So after the paramedics left, I got back to my coins, took pictures and am now posting them.

This is my very first coin like this that I have found in batches of wheats I have bought over the past year or so.
Regardless of what it is, the Lincoln is going to be the talk of my coin collection for quite sometime.

Heads I win, Tales You lose.:smile

jeankay

 

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P.S.
The coin measures exactly 19mm across, 3.11 gms, and 2mm thick.
jeankay

 

Maybe its just me, but it looks like there is a seam near the top of the coin in your edge picture. That's where it would have been sliced to attach the two head portions together. The slicing would have been done in such a way to not compromise standard thickness and weight.

 

I couldn't figure it out at first.......

It's a double "heads" Lincoln right? That's why the first picture is inverted right, to show coin rotation?

 

more pics of the rim?

 

Okay Newman, I can't let this go on any further.
It is a double headed Lincoln, but I am quite certain it did not come from the mint in this manner.
On this picture you can barely see the seam, more to the top of the edge than center.

I just thought it would be fun to post it as it is the most interesting coin I found in my collection of bulk wheats... and it is the very first one of its kind I have ever found.

Thanks for taking a gander at it.

jeankay

 

Neato !! I have made them at work on the lathe. They did a good job !!

 

Magman, always the skeptic.
Yes, you are right, there is a seam around the entire coin.
I just wonder about the person or persons who made this coin and how they got the size so nearly perfect.
Oh, just thought of something... this might be one of those spy coins... you know, the ones the government put a teensie little microchip in so it could be smuggled out of the country easily.

Oh, I have never seen my hubby's mouth drop open about any of my coins like it did today when I showed him my new 'error' coin...

jeanlee

 

or, can't get anything past these people...

These pictures might help some.
jeankay

 

lol.
gotta question a 2 Headed coin.

yeah, you can barely see the seem.
Oh well, still a fun thing to have

 

They could of hollowed it out, then made the other coin smaller & thinner then dropped it in . That way you couldn't tell by looking at the rim .at least thats how someone at my shop made some . On this one they just grinded the backs off . surface grinders are accurate to .0005 of an inch . Your hair is about .003 of an inch .
rzage