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Posted 06/03/2009 08:06 am
"Flipper's" are mass produced by using a metal lathe hollowing out one nickel like a cup and reducing the diameter of the second so that it fits into this cup-like depression. They are made as novelty coins and sell for about $4.00 in novelty shops.
You might try checking the sound as I suggested earlier and look at the coins alignment to see if it's correctly aligned. These flipper's often get put together way off so that could tell you.
Here's a list currently offered on ebay, at some healthy prices considering they're just junk.. http://shop.ebay.com/items/two%20he...md=1&_sop=12
Here's a page that tells you how to tell for sure,from about.com
http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoin...ded_coin.htm
I tried to find a article on the actual production of these coins but I couldn't find anything with pictures. If anyone knows of such a site, maybe they will post it. I've seen people actually finding separated pieces of these coins in change also. One person emailed me, thinking that he found a die cap, unfortunately is was just a section of a two tailed Quarter. ~ Jim
You might try checking the sound as I suggested earlier and look at the coins alignment to see if it's correctly aligned. These flipper's often get put together way off so that could tell you.
Here's a list currently offered on ebay, at some healthy prices considering they're just junk.. http://shop.ebay.com/items/two%20he...md=1&_sop=12
Here's a page that tells you how to tell for sure,from about.com
http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoin...ded_coin.htm
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Here's a quote from Ken Potter's variety & error website...a "genuine" piece has never been proven found in circulation, and more importantly, they should know that tens-of-thousands of faked double-headed and double-tailed (and other similar mismatched concoctions) have been made from genuine coins altered by machine shops after the coins left the Mint. These have been offered for sale by novelty concerns like magic shops and through ads in comic books for decades for prices starting at about $3 or $4 for cents up to about $8 or $10 on half dollar coins. Many of these get into circulation quite innocently and are later found by unsuspecting collectors who think they found rare Mint errors! Such is not the case!
Here's a quote from Ken Potter's variety & error website...a "genuine" piece has never been proven found in circulation, and more importantly, they should know that tens-of-thousands of faked double-headed and double-tailed (and other similar mismatched concoctions) have been made from genuine coins altered by machine shops after the coins left the Mint. These have been offered for sale by novelty concerns like magic shops and through ads in comic books for decades for prices starting at about $3 or $4 for cents up to about $8 or $10 on half dollar coins. Many of these get into circulation quite innocently and are later found by unsuspecting collectors who think they found rare Mint errors! Such is not the case!
I tried to find a article on the actual production of these coins but I couldn't find anything with pictures. If anyone knows of such a site, maybe they will post it. I've seen people actually finding separated pieces of these coins in change also. One person emailed me, thinking that he found a die cap, unfortunately is was just a section of a two tailed Quarter. ~ Jim
