Quarter question...

[bahbbie]

I recently found a quarter with two heads. It is one of the state quarters, so i have no way (that I know of) to identify what year it is. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to go online or if they could tell me if it is worth anything? Ive had some people tell me that it was, though I want to hear it from someone who actually knows what they are talking about before I get too excited . Thanks

 

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[Steeler Fan]

I do not know if its possible to have two heads stamped at once. I always thought that when a coin was stamped, that there was a top and a bottom on the press...always a heads and a tail. I could be wrong though.

YOu may have what is called "magicians coin". Magicians used them for parlor tricks. Here is an example link that may help you out. They may make them outta the new quarters now.

http://www.magictricks.com/coins/doubquart.htm


Steeler Fan

 

[BRD]

Bahbbie,
I think Steeler Fan is correct about the Obverse (front) and the Reverse (back) of coins being struck at the same time. Even if the planchet (coin blank) was able to flip over between strikes, you would then have a coin wirh a double impression of obverse over the reverse and vice versa. It probably is a magician's coin.
BRD

 

[Boaz]

I'd also bet it's a re-made ' magician's coin. I'm a long time member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, which doesn't make me an expert on the subject, but I've been exposed to a lot of stuff the average person doesn't see.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

I would have to agree with the above posts. I search thru boxes of half dollars to look for silver and other keepers, and have search literally tens of thousands of coins. I have found two "two headed" and one "two tailed" halves. These are made by someone taking one coin and hollowing it out, cutting down another one and fitting the first over the second. I found this out because I have also found one where the hollowed out piece came off the second coin. It is totally man made, and really has no extra value. Sorry.

 

[dudes2112]

If you look real closely at both sides of the coin you should be able to see the line where the other coin was put inside. It's usually just inside the lip that runs around the outside of the coin. Also, take a regular quarter and drop it onto a surface so you can hear the sound of it, then drop the fake one, there should be a distinct difference in sound.

Dudes

 

[resq937]

www.doubleheadedquaters.com

 

[resq937]

the quarters was spelled wrong i meant



www.doubleheadedquarters.com

 

[Klaatu]

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