Magicians coin

[TooManyHobbies]

I think I have one. I posted it quite some time ago, but still haven't been able to open it. It has a groove around the edge that looks like it was machined, so it looks like I could put a knife blade in and pop it open. I haven't tried that yet, but I've dropped it on the floor, shook it up in a jar. All I did was dull the edge all the way around. How do I open it? And if it's not a magic coin, why would there be a groove around it. BTW, it's a 1971 Ken if that helps.

 

[jim4silver]

I think I have one. I posted it quite some time ago, but still haven't been able to open it. It has a groove around the edge that looks like it was machined, so it looks like I could put a knife blade in and pop it open. I haven't tried that yet, but I've dropped it on the floor, shook it up in a jar. All I did was dull the edge all the way around. How do I open it? And if it's not a magic coin, why would there be a groove around it. BTW, it's a 1971 Ken if that helps.

If it is a magic coin it will sound different when you clank it against a regular clad. It will have sort of a hollow sound. I find these as part of my hunting and initially think I missed a silver (by rim searching) cause when I clank the stack of coins together it sounds almost like there is a silver in there, or at least different enough for me to look at it.

If your coin feels and sounds like a regular 71, then it probably is just that. I had a magic coin I could not open once and it bugged me so much I used some tools to open it, although the coin was ruined after that.

Jim

 

[hellsbells]

I had a magic coin I could not open once and it bugged me so much I used some tools to open it, although the coin was ruined after that.[/quote]

lol

I have yet to find a magicians coin myself, anyone have numbers on finding one?

thanks

 

[TxTim]

Put it in the freezer for a while and the shake it in a jar.

Hellsbells - they aren't too rare and easy to miss.
I have a full roll of various kinds of them.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Thanks TXTim, I'll try it.

 

[Ifyndit]

I've found about 30 out of 330,000 coins searched.

 

[buffhunter]

I have 26 of which 10 I have not been able to open yet. I have tried shaking them in a jar only to have the jar break. What a mess there. i was told that they sometimes will pop if you put them in boiling water- something about the air expanding and popping the back off. I have not tried the freezer yet, but the wife might find a few in there in the morning.

As for frequency of finding them, I have been CRH for many, many years and only started finding them last year. This may be due to the fact that I used to rewrap my halves and deposit them back at the bank, and now i use machines that reject the magicians coins. My dump banks only started installing coin counters over the past two years.

 

[OmegaMan]

If it doesn't open from being in the freezer or the glass jar,
set it free their will be many more.
I put Little notes in mine saying (stop poaching my silver)then
through them back.

 

[MarkinIa]

Try throwing it down on the counter, on its edge.
I have only been through about 15000.00 in halves and I have found 1 magic coin, 2 that have heads on both sides and 1 with tails on both sides.