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Please Help Identifying This Coin From Switzerland (Id: Modern Fantasy Mule)

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 Posted 06/09/2020  4:49 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Adiw to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
One side of the coin is a 5 Batz from Bern 1826 and the other side is a 21 sol from Geneva 1710.
Haven't been able to find anything about this coin.

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 Posted 06/09/2020  5:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TobyJ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like two coins smelted together, the outer grooving doesn't look normal.
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 Posted 06/09/2020  5:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adiw to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You can have a better view of the rim
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 Posted 06/09/2020  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gincoin43 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They are two different size coins, the 5 batz is 2mm smaller.
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 Posted 06/09/2020  9:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Seems like a modern fantasy. Can you please post the weight and diameter of this piece? Also, can you give us an idea where you purchased it?
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27 mm
4.3 g
I've bought it at an online auction.
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Comparing your images with those at https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22966.html and https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces48515.html, it's clear that yours didn't start as authentic coins. Sorry about that but it's still a very interesting piece. Two headed designs are often associated with magic tricks but magic tricks would typically involve current coinage and these two designs are more than a century apart. A wild guess is that somebody at one of the coin counterfeiting factories mixed up dies.
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 Posted 06/15/2020  1:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adiw to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, I already know that it relates to 2 different dates.
Wanted to check if anyone so this combination anywhere in the past.
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