major lamination error??? what is this?

just found this in a box of pennies...what is this??

 

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either someone drilled out the center with a cnc machine or it a trick coin from a magicians set

 

Not a lamination. Not a mint error.
It's half of a magician's coin. It was hollowed to accept another coin face, probably a dime.
From the number of posts here asking the same question, I have to assume they are very common.

 

It was probably reamed out to accept the reverse of another cent to make it a "two-tailed" cent. It looks like whomever attempted it failed because it wasn't reamed out on a level plane. You can see that the depth on the left side is shallower than the depth on the right side.

Chris

 

Here is another such example of a hollowed out coin

 

@Facevalue - This is a thread I created almost a year ago... Learn my friend
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bruce-lees-magical-coin-there-may-be-hundreds.264703/

 

And here is a true Lamination! This is part of my collection

 

Wow paddy. That's killer. Do you have the piece that detached over liberty?

 

No.. that would of been cool to have

 

https://www.cointalk.com/posts/2399581/

 

Smash a 1958 Wheat Cent into that and you've got a 1958 Memorial Cent. That's how they "mint" those.

 

Accidental installation of a 57 wheat reverse die during a 58 memorial run?