hoping its real...

[allen]

I stopped at a yard sale this afternoon and saw the man was selling money.
He showed me two coins i was very interested in and i bought the cheaper one.
It is a new state quarter with a head on both sides and the intersting thing is, one side has a d mint mark while the other side has a p mint mark.
I gave $8.00 for it, he wanted $13.00.
Is it possible for this coin to be real, or did i buy something fake?
The other coin i was intested in was a sacewagea dollar coin with an eagle on both sides. He wants $20.00 for it.
Should i buy it, or could it be a fake?
Let me know soon so i can buy the sacewagea if its real.

 

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[davidtn]

Well I have to tag on to this story and see where it ends up!

 

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[beetle662]

Interesting story and looking forward to how it turns out.

 

[pronghorn]

Now that I have a digital camera tell
me how I can get a pic of both sides
of this coin at the same time?

Does it have to be at the same time? It is easy to post 2 separate photos
in the same message. Just click on the (more attachments) link to the right
of the add images space.

 

[allen]

I was wanting to show just what this
coin looked like when she bought it
is the reason i wanted to try to get
a shot of both sides at one time....

 

[robbuckalew]

I have about 12 two headed coins just you can get them on the ebay for a buck

 

[hyperion]

Time to put this to rest once and for all ... it's impossible for modern coinage to have two heads or two tails. Why you ask? The shank on an obverse (heads) die is shaped differently than that of a reverse (tails) die. An obverse die won't fit into the reverse die slot on the coining press and vice versa. But, if you take two coins and slice them down the middle, you can glue/solder the halfs together to make these oddities. Look for the seam along the rim.

 

[pronghorn]

I was wanting to show just what this
coin looked like when she bought it
is the reason i wanted to try to get
a shot of both sides at one time....

You can do that with the two images in some of the photo programs on a
computer. I have put my face into other pictures for the fun of it
so I don't know why you couldn't put two pictures side by side and save them as one picture. If you want you can post a picture of each side and I will take them and see if I can turn them into one.

 

[pronghorn]

Time to put this to rest once and for all ... it's impossible for modern coinage to have two heads or two tails. Why you ask? The shank on an obverse (heads) die is shaped differently than that of a reverse (tails) die. An obverse die won't fit into the reverse die slot on the coining press and vice versa. But, if you take two coins and slice them down the middle, you can glue/solder the halfs together to make these oddities. Look for the seam along the rim.

I am not in anyway saying this is a real coin, I am trying to help allen to figure out
a way to post a side by side picture. I don't think you will find a seam on the
edge/rim of the coin, my bet, one side is turned out on a lathe,
another coin is turned down to fit in the recess created in the first and
the seam will be on one side or the other.



Allen, try dropping the coin on a hard surface or placing it in a pickle jar and
shaking it around to see if it separates.

 

[allen]

here is a pic of both sides of this quarter...





im not totally sure, but with my magnifying
glass, i think i can see a seam or at least a
bit of space where this quarter couldve been
two quarters put together to make one..

 

[piratesgold]

I think I see the seem, but it might be my biased eyes looking FOR it.

Lucky

 

[pronghorn]

I think I see the seem, but it might be my biased eyes looking FOR it.

Lucky

I think I see it too, on the D side, bottom pic, just inside the outside raised rim.

 

[pronghorn]

Allen, sorry the pic is so large, I can downsize it or remove it if you want.
looks like you bought a "tooled" coin.
I have a small atlas lathe and I could do this to make a similar coin
but I wouldn't do it for 8 dollars, it would be quite a bit more if
I would do it at all and I don't think I would. Did you ever hear anymore
from the people at the ss that were going to come and look at it?

 

[allen]

they took my statement, checked the coin out,
gave it back to me and said we will be getting
back in touch with you and ive not heard any-
thing from them since.
i do know the old man is still selling the coins
at his residence in yard sales....