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Fake Rotated Die Error Kennedy Half

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 Posted 11/21/2008  1:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Jaobler to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I posted about this coin on the coin roll hunting thread, but I thought it might be of interest to error collectors as well.

I went through about $240 in halves the other day and found absolutely nothing, until I got to the last roll. Those were all common clads, except when I performed my "coin turn" to check the reverses one 1971-dated coin had a 100° clockwise rotation. For about 2 seconds I was stoked, but then I spotted the telltale reverse seam of a fabricated rotated die error. Someone had hollowed out the back side of a 1971 coin and shaved down another half to fit inside. They positioned the filler coin with the reverse in the rotated position. It was precisely done, but the seam is easily visible around the reverse rim. This is the second fake rotated die half I've found while roll hunting.

There are actually 4 different indicators that this is a fake and not a genuine (and valuable) rotated die error:
1) The visible reverse seam.
2) The weight: a normal clad half weighs 11.34 grams; this one is about 10.8 grams.
3) The "ring": if you drop this coin on a table it mades a dull thudding sound. There is no ringing sound like you get with any normal coin.
4) The reverse is clearly not a 1971. I've seen enough Kennedy half dollars to know that on the 1971 coins the eagle is struck in relatively high relief. Detail is often soft, but the bird is three-dimensional. This coin has the low-relief reverse that you see on coins from the mid-nineties.

Anyway, it's a "fun" find, but I'd really rather have found just one 1964 silver!
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 Posted 11/21/2008  2:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add foundinrolls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Good find, so far every rotated die Kennedy that I've come across has been one of these:-)

I am curious as to what is on the inside of the piece that fits into the "shell". Sometimes on the back of the piece that is the insert, there is another coin used to make it appear as though the coin is something else when the insert is flipped.

I have one here that has a Mexican 20 centavos on the opposite side of the insert and another where they used a penny from Great Britain.

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Wow...very useful info! This should be archived somewhere for easy reference.
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 Posted 11/28/2008  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jaobler to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I took these photos of the coin with our new, cheap camera. The reverse shot shows the degree of rotation when the coin is flipped straight over. Resolution is no better than adequate but you can see the seam where the insert coin fits into the shell, just inside the reverse rim. You might also be able to tell that the reverse eagle has much lower relief than is typical for an unaltered 1971 coin.

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