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MY wife and I were searching our regular halve boxes today and we had a great day (5 OZ).
That being said, she found a coin that looked odd and weighed it. It weighed 10.3 grams. I found this odd but I looked at it anyway and low and behold, I had a 1976 Bicentennial half that had the wrong reverse.
After the initial shock I wondered if the weight was an issue, being a bit light. However, there is no issue with the coin being altered that I can tell.
This is REAL, and the wife is excited for sure as she thought my silver hunting was a waste of time.
If it is as I believe, a RARE error, one I have never heard of, then she has won our little bet hands down. I hope she is right.
I have looked, googled, and guessed. I have not seen one of these mentioned.
The only thing I can think of is it was made in 1975 or late 1977.
Please look at the pictures and let me know what the experts think..
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Try the photos again ... they do not work.
David
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Magicians coin. They took a biccential ovbverse and combined it with a regular reverse.
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 To CCF! Try the pic thing again.. Sounds like a "spy" coin hollowed out and screws together. |
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The rim on the reverse shows clear machining.
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For your sake I hope it's real. But the picture of the reverse shows a line inside the rim all the way around. That looks like a seam, where someone cut down an eagle reverse, hollowed out a '76 obverse and created a homemade mule. Hope I'm wrong, though. Cool find if it's real.
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Very nice ... that is a well done 'magicians coin" ... whereby the coin is mechanically altered to combine obverse and reverse elements to create a coin that never happened from the US Mint.
Observe the inner ring on the reverse of your coin ... this is the seam where the reverse was machined and placed into the coin ... and this one is nicely done indeed.
It is a great curiosity piece ... but not a Mint error.
David
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[URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/411/sided.jpg/]  [/URL] [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/1976front.jpg/]  [/URL] [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/wrongreverse.jpg/]  [/URL] |
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Wow.. I guess that makes sense but it was nice to dream.
Are you sure, I did not see anything from the side but I do see the ring....crap.
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Well it sounds different than the other halves. It is not real. My wife is bummed but I told her the weight was an issue but I too believed.
Crap....at least we found 5 OZ....
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Well it was nice for an hour or so. We are both bummed but not discouraged at all.
Still its a great conversation piece.....
bummer...
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atsinger, did you find anything inside of it? John1  |
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I got lost looking at all the magic tricks.  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Posted 08/16/2012 9:05 pm
