Two Headed Coins

The one with "Bush / Gore" is not an official coin, nor a proposed design for one - US law stipulates the Mint can't put living people on coins. It'll be either a bullion round or, given its design, a "spinner". It's not an error - it's supposed to be like that. You could have played a game with it: "Who do you think will eventually win the election? Let's toss this coin and see."

While most double-headed coins are either two halves of two separate coins that have been spliced together, or outright fakes, there are a very small number of genuine examples in the series of certain countries. I believe there are three known Australian double-headed coins, for instance. It's usually very difficult to "accidentally" use the wrong die, because in most mints the obverse and reverse die blocks are completely different shapes - so it's physically impossible to insert a second obverse die in the place where a reverse die is supposed to go. To make a double-headed coin the mint (or somebody in the mint) would have to deliberately set up a special press just for that purpose.

Intentionally-made double-headed coins, where both the obverse and reverse of a coin have a portrait, are not unknown. There are plenty of ancient Roman coins, such as this example, with the emperor on the obverse and another member of the imperial family on the reverse. You occasionally see a similar arrangement on modern coins.

This is all just the sort of background info I was looking for, just to flesh out my understanding.

The Bush/Gore does appear to be silver, but it did come free along with other coins bought....so I assume nobody is giving away true value.

one funny story to go with it already. When it came, I laid it out to show the wife later.
We are both strong Conservative voters with no appreciation for AlGore.
Forgot about it and a week after that she came across it and hollered out loud, "Why in the world did you buy a coin with Gore's face on it!?!?!" because that was the side happened to be facing up.
I showed her the other side and told her the story and she calmed down.

Don't you all wish you could calm your wives just byu flipping a coin over?

:D

Wow this one has political powder keg written all over it.
With these 2 candidates
I'm thinking that this one isn't a double headed coin but maybe one with 2 tails...If you get My drift

Otherwise we would have currency like Iraq did, but instead of Saddam, it would be Bush and Obama. **shiver**

Yes so far the only coins with living people have been on commemoratives. And Eunice Shriver was NOT the founder of the Special Olympics. It was founded several years before she ever got involved with it. She was just a celebrity that made it her "cause". She promoted it and raised funds for it, but she didn't found it.