Counterfeit/Fake Quarter? | 'Magician' Double-Headed

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JGLOCAL New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 05:57 am I came across this quarter from a bank roll. I have never seen this before but 2 heads one side upwards and other side head is sideways and different dates. Thanks for looking:) Moved to Modern US Varieties forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

bmanofnbc Pillar of the Community United States 1424 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 06:58 am it's a trick coin, used for a coin toss... Edited by bmanofnbc 10/11/2011 06:59 am Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 11:29 am Just a trick coin(two coin halves machined to fit together), you should be able to win some heads/tails bets with that one Report this Post to the Staff
JGLOCAL New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 3:13 pm Thanks.. Report this Post to the Staff
Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 4:58 pm Your post made me smile. I just got back into collecting last year. I was at my sister's house and she had a big jar of change that she was going to take to the bank -- someday. So I went through it. I found a double-headed quarter and let out a yelp of surprise. But a second later I saw that the dates and mint marks didn't match. So it was impossible for it to be an error. Then I saw the line where one obverse had been cut out. So somewhere there is a two-tailed coin...I suppose. I just seems odd that somebody went to the trouble to make it and then it ended up in circulation. I'm keeping mine...you never know when you'll need it! Report this Post to the Staff
yankee1227 Pillar of the Community United States 1151 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 6:16 pm I use my double headed coin all the time ;-) Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16836 Posts	Posted 10/11/2011 7:31 pm As others have posted, it's a "trick coin". It's not fake, but it has been altered, made using two normal quarters. The first is lathed out to make a shallow bowl, the second ground down to a thin disk to fit snugly inside the bowl, like the two half half-dollars coop posted in this thread. In your case, you can see the seam line where the two halves join together in the top pic, running around the rim, particularly noticeable above the LIB in LIBERTY. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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