Penny With Two Reverses

Well, with extra thickness and dates 5 years apart, it's certainly not an official mint error. By my reckoning, it's either:

(a) a split'n'splice job, with the join between the two half-coins cleverly concealed by mechanism unknown; perhaps the seam is hidden just inside the beaded rim on one side or the other, but I can't see it on the pics.

(b) a fake cast coin, made with two reverses; the video seems to show a slight central bulge, which lends itself to this theory. It would be a lot of trouble to make a fake double-sided penny in this way, but a trickster might find such a coin more useful than a splicer. If this is true, there should be the remnants of the casting sprue somewhere around the rim; tell-tale file marks in one spot would be evident.

Maybe it was done to win on the 'flip' of a coin if you constantly chose 'tails'?

here is a article on PCGS's website about magician coins by Ken Potter http://www.pcgs.com/articles/articl...iverseid=313 Another thing that is popular in the US is people making Mule coins which consists of an obverse oif one denomination and the reverse of another denomination, these became popular when the mint actually made this mistake with the quarter and the Sacagawea dollar. I have seen these being made and they are very hard to detect if someone was actually trying to deceive another but if you ever find anything that looks like this coin you definately want to take a closer look http://www.coinfacts.com/error_coin...wea_mule.htm