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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 218124, member: 66&quot;]I mentioned weighing it to see if it has been lessened, if the weight is significantly less that would condemn the piece.&nbsp; BUT if the weight is right, that DOES NOT mean that it is real.&nbsp; You would be surprised at how much of the detail you can mill off a coin and still be within the mint tolerances.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to how it is done, you can mount the coin in a lathe and then use a graver to shave the metal off the face from the center to the inner surface of the rim.&nbsp; And there are a lot of people out there skilled in doing that.&nbsp; (It is also the first step done in creating fake novelty Sac/quarter mules.&nbsp; The Sac is milled from center to rim, and the entire back is milled off the quarter.&nbsp; Then the quarter is fit into the sac dollar.&nbsp; Done well it is very difficult to see the seam.&nbsp; The same technique is used to create two headed/tailed coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly this could very easily be either an unfinished two headed washington dollar, or a finished one that came apart.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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