What do I call this mint error?

Then I'm going to count this:

...as at least a partial victory. Without seeing either face, I couldn't be expected to judge whether the two halves were real or fake.

The usual motivation for grafting faces from two different coins is to produce a rare date/mint combination from two common donor coins. That doesn't work for gold dollars, where the date and mint mark are both on the reverse. But here's the coin that made me think along those lines:



I'd guess grafting a common obverse onto this, and fixing the hole, might tempt some people. But I can't imagine the result passing close scrutiny, especially if you can see photos of both sides of the coin.

 

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The coin is not mine and I only needed a picture of the edge.