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Double Headed George V Penny

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 Posted 08/01/2012  05:59 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add NickB to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I recently inherited my Grandfathers coin collection, upon catalogueing it I have come accross a curious penny. It has no date, but 2 Heads, Side A, if you will, has a larger image than side B. Has anyone come accross anything similar? Is it genuine, or a Magicians coin? It feels it and I have handled 100s of pennies over the last weeks.
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to CCF. We are going to need a photo. It does not sound like it's a coin but maybe it's a medal?
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If the different sides are different sizes, then the coins they came from are different dates (they shrunk the size of the portrait in 1928).

It's impossible for such a coin to have come out of the mint like that, so it was presumably made from pieces of two separate coins that have been joined together - a trick coin or Magician's coin.
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I have two double-headed coins - one George V and one Victoria. They are made from two coins shaved down and welded/glued? together. The George V coin is superbly done, but close examination reveals a join around the centre of the edge.

I assume they were made for tricks or jokes, maybe even for a confidence trickster?
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For a genuine (Mint-error) two headed coin, please see -
https://goccf.com/t/123299


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 Posted 08/04/2012  09:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JeromeL to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Look at the edge, there should be a seam. It's a novelty coin created by cutting two coins in half and reattaching them.

Almost all modern double-headed or double-tailed coins are fake.
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