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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 154097, member: 669&quot;]Fairly common - known as &quot;magician&#039;s coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually made by machining out everything inside the rim to one-half the thickness of a coin, and removing the rim and half the thickness of another coin, then putting the two pieces together.&nbsp; Careful examination will usually show a line around the inside of one rim, but when carefully made they can be hard to detect visually.&nbsp; The &quot;ring&quot; test is infallible - When dropped a short distance onto a hard surface, or carefully held by the edge and tapped with another coin or piece of metal, they &quot;clunk&quot;.&nbsp; It&#039;s a much deader sound than even a clad coin makes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The majority of coins altered that way are two-headed or two-tailed, made with two of the same coin.&nbsp; Others are made with two different coins.&nbsp; Yours sounds like a hybrid, where someone used three coins, shaving&nbsp; the inside Kennedy slice even thinner than usual, and gluing it to the 20 centavos which had also been shaved considerably.&nbsp; The whole thing would be incredibly more complicated if the outer piece was mated to the Mexican coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do a forum search on &quot;Magic&quot; or &quot;Magician&quot; and you&#039;ll come up with several threads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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