I have in my possession a 1942 Walking Liberty. Oh, i should first say that i know almost nothing about U.S. coins, but would love to. So as i was saying, i have a 1942 walking liberty with what appears to be a big error. walking liberty is on both sides. Both sides are identical. I'm sorry if im doing a bad job explaining this. I just hope it wasn't a common mistake for 1942. I'm trying to take some good pictures of it if anyone has any tips for doing that im all ears.
I hate to burst your bubble, but you have a manufactured item, known as a "Magician's Coin", worth a couple of bucks at the outside.
Or even more likely a hairline just inside the rim on one side where one coin was hollowed out and a second one was milled down to fit inside.
The coin is most likely 99.99999% as stated by previous posts. In the remote posibilty that the coin is genuine you are sitting on a small gold-mine. It is always fun to think about what kind of money something like that could bring if it were real. Maybe a couple hundred thousand? Enjoy the thought because it is likely more valuable than reality in this case.
Yeah, with 72,769,800 half dollars made that year there would be 73 of them floating around and they would probably have been reported long before now.
does anyone have pictures that give examples of these cracks where the coin was cut in half. Cause im looking at it and i just do see anything like that. who knows.
The seam to the halves could be in different places, but I assure you it is there. Obverse dies are made to fit only the hammer side of the press. When you see a double sided coin you see a "trick" coin for sure. Silver is at 10X face and more. Keep it its neat! Keep on Collecting!!! Allen
It's not impossible, but it's certainly highly improbable. There are 3 or 4 doubled headed/tailed US coins that I know to exist. That's it, out of hundreds of billions of coins that have been minted. There are quite a few more among the coins of other nations, but we are talking US.
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