A coin was obtained from a business in change. The coins is 5.17 grams and has 1979 on obverse 1986P on the other obverse One side is horihorizontal to the other. I cannot possibly see it being real, but I'll be damned if I can see any alteration of the coin. Could it be possible
Most likely fake. They have 2 different dates which means that it could not have been minted that way. Novelty coins are made in a way that it is hard to tell how they were created.
Here is an example of a novelty Nickel.. one side is made so it slides into a shell that was hollowed out.
Yes I understand.. They can make them anyway they want. They are considered 2 headed coins. Again.. Novelty item used for such instances as a coin toss. Heads will always win.
I was thinking it was a fake. I wish my camera was worth a dam so I could upload photos of the coin. If the coin is a fake, it does not show.
yes, its a 2 headed nickel, or magicians coin, if you look closely just inside the rim you should see a seam, two-headed coins are made by hollowing out the center of one coin, leaving the edge and heads side intact, and then shaving down a second coin so that it fits snugly inside the shell of the first.
If it shows to be a fake the flpper will get caught cheating on the coin toss. The one slides completely into the other so no seams show. It's a magicians coin.
I also think it's fake, but it turns out there's actually one out there! https://coinweek.com/coins/error-coins/mint-error-news-pcgs-certifies-unique-two-headed-nickel/
Well known Nickel. Most likely Mint Assisted. But that one has the same date. The Nickel in question is years apart.
with the years so far apart its definitely fake, i have 2 nickels and a quarter and if you look closely you can see a seam.. edit: and if you run it thru the wash, chances are it will come apart.. (as did my other quarter) left side has seam... left side has seam..(2002) right side has seam (1990)
Okay, I never thought about concealing one of those in a coin. In the old days, you could conceal a few pages of information on microfilm. Today? Thousands of hours of audio, hundreds of hours of video, or maybe a hundred million pages of text. Whoa.
