HELP! identify my "IKE"

help with identification please

I have had this coin looked at by varies "experts" and none of them can 100% I.D. it. Can anyone please HELP? Its a 1978 IKE dollar that has a blank reverse, A big cud on ike's neck, and is made of silver weighing 25grams. I have been told everything from, it might have been made by a mint worker and smuggled out. to it is a new found one of a kind error that needs to be sent to a auction house., and could be worth as much as $10,000. One expert said at first he thought it could be a conterfeit but said he wasn't sure because it was silver and that there has never been a report of a "faked" 1978 IKE. I have no clue what to think or do as I have no idea about coins. If anyone thinks they know anything about this coin please help.... the pics are terrible compared towhat the coin looks like. I am in the process of trying to scan new ones. Thanks

 

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Please post photos here. You can cover a lot more ground this way, and someone might be able to help.

Welcome aboard!

Chris

 

thanks.. will do

 

Hi,

I don't want to sound cruel or burst any bubbles but it is nothing of value. This is a very damaged insert from something known as a Magician's coin.

Two coins are used, one is hollowed out and is called a shell. The other part is called the insert. They create double headed coins for use as a novelty or for a magic trick. An "expert" should have been able to identify this in under 10 seconds.

Do a search for "double sided Eisenhower dollar" to see what I am talking about.

It has no value as a collectible.

Sorry,

Bill

 

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thanks for the info.. I really don't care if it was worth anything I was just curious as to what it was.. I had it acid tested and "scoped" the result was 82.34% silver. The pics were takin on a camera phone and horrible. It's 100% different looking in person and I should have waited to post pics till I could get it scaned. Thanks for helping

 

Thanks, I posted a response there as well.

Bill

 

thats a weird ike i don't know the answer

 

Judging from the photo's, it looks like a piece of experimental junk.

My advice: Either mail the coin to Fred Weinberg in Encino, CA or drive it there. Either Mail the coin to PCGS in Newport Beach, CA, or drive it there. Eithe mail the coin to James Wiles in Frisco, TX or drive it there. Your choice. If you do nothing, you will have nothing and no way to prove its anything other than your inexperienced and uneducated (numismatically speaking) word for it.