I own a nickel that was stamped tails on both side is that worth anything there is no date, just the picture of the back of the nickel on both sides if you know anything about this you can e-mail me at EDITED - Not a good idea to post a personal email address online.
I'm 99.999999999999% sure it is a magician's coin. Click on 'Search' on the top bar and search for "Magician's coin". There are many, many threads that explain what these are.
Hi, It is a magician coin ( also other names) where 2 coins are combined. Often done on a lathe as a precision test. They are fun as a conversation piece and every collector should have one. Some have heads and some have 2 tails. WELCOME to the forum! http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t48301/?highlight=double+head+1974 Jim
If you want more of them you could just go to Google and type in magic supply stores. There is one not far from me and I've gone in many times for magic type coins. I'm not into magic but some of thoes are really fantastic. This is an example of one of the many types they sell. And don't let anyone fool you. They are not cheap. The way they get into circulation is during a magic trick the magician looses who had one and it ends up in change. You should see some of the other types of coins they sell. Hollowed out, two different denominations and many, many more.
I should have pointed out that if you look closely at the Ikes, you would see that one side is a D and the other side is not. I showed the edge so you could see it is difficult to see any methods of how they did it.
That just means that a Denver specimen got magically transported to the Philadelphia Mint, where it was re-stamped, upside-down, on an obverse die, but the mint worker forgot to install the reverse die, and....and... Okay, you're right. It's a magician's coin. Say...I really like the old hollowed-out coins. Some of them were used by "spies" to transport secret information, or illicit material. I think I'll buy one of them the next time I see one. The Morgan dollar ones are pretty sweet.
If interested you might try Google and type in Magic Stores and your state. You might find one near you. Really interesting places to visit.
