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Bulgaria
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I found a 200 lire coin that only has the back side on both sides. I couldn't find any information on it after googling for some time. Here is a picture from google: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ph...original.jpgMy coin looks like that on both sides. Does anyone have any information on it? All I know is that it looks like 1987 200 lire. |
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Valued Member
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Photos of the actual coin please (front, back, and the edge in this instance), or we won't be able to assist in any way.
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Moderator
 United States
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 to CCF. Sounds like a Magicians coin, but we need photos to really help you. John1  |
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 Bulgaria
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Its a very well done Magician's coin. The producer has taken a 200 lire, and ground down the area just inside of the rim. They have then ground down another coin to fit the recessed area - evident on the side with a smidgen of verdigris, leaving that inner ring along the rim, just inside, but leaving the edge reeding intact. An interesting piece, but unfortunately just a curiosity. Edited by norantyki
02/23/2021 2:32 pm
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New Member
Bulgaria
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That makes sense. Thank you! Do you think it has any value?
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Valued Member
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Not really, sorry... you might find a magician who will give you a few bucks to use it in a trick ;)
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New Member
Bulgaria
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I thought I had stumbled onto a rare coin but it was just a haox :D. First time I've heard of Magician's coin. At least I learned something. Thanks for the fast response! |
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United States
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Australia
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These pictures are actually an excellent guide for spotting the seam between the two half-coins. Look at the area around the rim, on both sides. In the top pic, the rim is quite low, almost not there at all, and slopes gradually down into the field. This is quite common on 20th century Italian coins, which don't tend to have wide, prominent rims.
Now look at the bottom picture. The rim is quite prominent, made more so by the black circle just inside the rim. That black circle is the seam, where the flattened-disc half-coin was pushed into the bowl-shaped half-coin.
In the third picture, the seam is even more prominent at that angle, and the two half-coins show up as two slightly different colours in that lighting.
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Canada
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Magicians' coins are a collectable. I have a few. But @norantyki is right. I would never pay more than a few dollars for one.
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I thought I had stumbled onto a rare coin Does anyone else have one, made from that coin, even here?  |
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Posted 02/23/2021 2:13 pm
