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New Member
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Bedrock of the Community
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Much larger images, please.  to the CCF! |
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 Hopefully this is better, I'm starting to think you're right tho, pretty amazing machining skills! |
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Is there a fine seam around the middle of the edge? If not, if you tap it sharply, does the Kennedy side fall out?
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It is not a mint error. The wide rim on the Kennedy side precludes it from being a "mule" of a Kennedy half and Washington quarter. It was manufactured from two separate coins, long after both coins left the mint. What you have is a variation on the classic Magicians coin or "two headed coin". It would have been made by taking a normal silver quarter (silver is easier to work with than the clad coinage), and hollowing it out on a lathe to make a shallow dish. You then take a normal silver half dollar, and grind the reverse side away, grind it completely flat. You'd then need to lathe the disc down to quarter-size. Then, push the disc from the half dollar down into the dish that remains of the quarter dollar, and presto! a two-headed coin. The seam that joins the two half-coins together is on the Kennedy side, just inside the rim. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Rest in Peace
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A very cool Magician's coin. They typically sell for around $10, but I would guess yours to be worth more than that due to both it being silver, older and cooler than most. |
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Pillar of the Community
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That is very neat never seen one great pick up keeper.
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New Member
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awesome coin! did you find that in change or from some sort of shop or dealer?
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Bedrock of the Community
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 It's similar to a Magician's coin. I've never seen one like that, but it's pretty cool!  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
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I have a few magicians' coins. This is a nice variation which I would have picked up had I seen it.
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Hoping the Kennedy is silver too.....
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It was passed down to me from relatives, it is pretty cool, I can now see the tiny lip on the Kennedy side. Thank you all for your input! Someone definitely took there time making it, it's very precise fit.
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Pillar of the Community
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Cropping your posted pictures (in the future) is important...I was studying the edge of your coin for awhile before I realized I was looking at an ashtray....  to CCF...neat looking Magicians coin |
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to the Community! |
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Magicians coins are create in a machine shop on a metal lathe. They are not mint errors, they are Post Strike Damage. ( PSD) They are intended to deceive. There are many ways there are done and seeing how they are done, helps us spot, that they are all fakes:  Two coins are always involved. Both altered one way or another:  On this one, you can see the double line on the altered insert coin. The other half of the coin is altered looking like the first set of images.  Sometimes they shaved down to glue them together.     Another coin added:     Sometimes they are altered to make them look like rotated die coins and sold as one. They can be opened I've heard is you place one inside a glass container and move it side by side. If they are are like the first images. (but if they are glued, they might not come apart) CoopHome: Magic coins.Edited by coop
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