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New Member
United States
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Newbie here and I could really use some help. I could not do justice by trying to explain this, so I'm attaching photos. My grandfather left me a shoebox of coins when he passed a few years ago. I recently started looking through them again and while I was holding one of the Peace dollars I felt a strange shake, almost like the coin was hollow. After some investigation, here is what I found:       What is this and where did my grandfather get it? Any help is greatly appreciated. Just a sidenote...this is after I had taken these coins to a local coin shop where the numismatist looked through all I had and explained their values. Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's pretty neat. Kinda like Russian Nesting Dolls...  Seriously though, never seen anything like it. You've come to the right place though. Welcome, I'm sure someone here will know something about it. |
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Mexico
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Pillar of the Community
United States
860 Posts |
Back when more schools had industrial arts programs that was more than just computers, machinist student would make matching pairs to show competency on the lathe, many were magician coins ( two heads halves or 2 tail halves that made a 2 headed or 2 tailed coins.) that we see fairly often ( the better the fit, the better the machinist. These just look more like practice or grade assignments, and I suspect there are 3 missing tail halves or the assignment was incomplete.
There are probably more reasons, but this is just one.
Jim
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, that is REALLY cool.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
That is so cool dude!  Awesome! |
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New Member
 United States
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Wow, thanks for the replies...very interesting and very cool. When I initially noticed the two halves were, well two halves and not a solid piece, I felt like I was about to open a film cannister with film of the grassy nole or something!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah, thanks for sharing that here. I've never seen one of those, either.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I saw one similar on auction in UK.War piece(One I saw)Soldiers sort of lucky piece.Much older coin though-sold for about 35 GBP.
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
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WOW, that's so cool. Are the inner disks all silver as well?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Too cool! I always like seeing the insides of coins. Thanks for sharing!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, you could do some awesome tricks with that set of trick coins! I'd guess there's a nice premium for a coin setup like that!  |
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New Member
United States
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TenSense-Yes they all seem to be the face half of original coins. Unfortunately, it seems as though whoever made this had to use 2 different Peace dollars to create the base and "cap" section. The only way I can figure the top piece was done is to bore out all of the silver of the head-side section(slightly confusing linguistics) as the machining rings would indicate. I'm just glad I noticed. |
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Posted 06/10/2011 10:37 pm
