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Thanks Errors And Varieties. I wish my pics could do the 1974 justice. This was the first DDO coin I ever found. Quote:I guess it's a Magician's coin but it doesn't seem or sound hollow. The seam is on the reeded edge but it looks and feels like a regular solid half. Could you cut a coin in half like that? Why would you? ...and how? Yes, they cut or sand two halves and join them together to make a coin with which you will never lose a coin toss. ebay and other online sources sell them. The Magician's coins are used for a trick called "Scotch and Soda." Google it to find out more. Also sold online.  A Half is hollowed out, another has its rim removed and everything else removed except the REV design on a very thin wafer of metal. A British penny or Mexican peso has its OBV and rim removed while also being thinned down. The wafer-thin Kennedy reverse is attached to the blank side of the peso/penny, and the peso/penny side is pressed into the hollowed Kennedy half. I got 10 Magician's coins out of 378,000 halves, but only one of the two headed pieces like yours. Since the Magician's coins made a dull thud on the plate glass sheet I used as a roll searching surface, they were not hard to ID. Edited by Earle42
05/23/2018 10:22 pm
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You're very welcome Earle42! Keep it up with those good finds. Hopefully, I'll find something good out of those 2 OBW circulated Kennedy half rolls I bought on ebay. I'll post here if I find anything good. Errers and Varietys.
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Nice finds chuckster! It must be so fun searching Kennedy Halfs.
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Wow Chuckster, finding that 1966 DDO in circulation is something. I think the 1966 DDOs were only SMS only issues. Please correct me if I am wrong. Nice 72-D No FG also. I found only nine from a total of 3,348 1972-Ds searched. |
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Yes, they cut or sand two halves and join them together to make a coin with which you will never lose a coin toss. How are they held together, superglue? |
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Thanks, having seen yours, I think I need to add this one to my list. I am not sure how I missed it before as when I started to roll search, I went to varietyvista.com and decided which DDOs were easy to see and put them on a want list.
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All the best!
The DDO-033 is one tough coin to find.
Nothing but pure luck that I actually found one.
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Very nice find USSID18! That's a very nice Clipped (Incomplete) Planchet.
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To me this one look not like an incomplete planchet. The areas at the ends of the clipped area don't show the tapered edges we usually see on a clip. Neither side. The angle for the removal looks wrong. Instead of a vertical cut, it looks skimmed on both sides. I think I can see a hint of reeds on the edge. No weakness on the 'I' on LIBERTY. The Blakesley area on the obverse looks bent outwards a tiny bit. It just doesn't look correct to me for an incomplete planchet.
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To me this one look not like an incomplete planchet. The areas at the ends of the clipped area don't show the tapered edges we usually see on a clip. Neither side. The angle for the removal looks wrong. Instead of a vertical cut, it looks skimmed on both sides. I think I can see a hint of reeds on the edge. No weakness on the 'I' on LIBERTY. The Blakesley area on the obverse looks bent outwards a tiny bit. It just doesn't look correct to me for an incomplete planchet. Hmmmm, okay good info. Something else to digest. Thanks! |
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Also on the last image, the rim metal seems to dish out on the area where the reed edge is showing. More than the rest of the coin.
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