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Old October 31st 05, 05:16 AM
Robert Korn
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I'm just wondering if this is even possible. I can't imagine a situation
where this could occur.

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Old October 31st 05, 05:33 AM
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Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What
is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be
wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me.

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Old October 31st 05, 06:07 AM
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Either that, or another trick coin where a dime hides inside a
hollowed-out cent. Have seen lots of these over the years. Not a Mint
error.
Tom DeLorey

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Old October 31st 05, 07:02 AM
Jud
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Yep, part of a magic trick, and if I am not mistaken, the rest of the
trick is in the picture as well. These are usually magnetic and are
attracted to a felt covered box that contains a magnet...if that is
what I am seeing.

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Old October 31st 05, 07:18 AM
Scott Stevenson
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On 30 Oct 2005 20:33:20 -0800, "dmzcompute"
wrote:

Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What
is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be
wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me.


I think you're right--it looks like I can see a rim on the "blank"
side, so this would be the hollowed out half.

take care,
Scott

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Old October 31st 05, 04:58 PM
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This type of error can happen, but from the pictures on the ebay site
this coin does not look like a genuine error.
If 2 blanks are fed between the dies at the same time each will have
an image on one side and be blank on the other. The problem with the
coin in the picture(s) is that the blank side is "perfectly smooth". If
this coin were from a 2 blank brockage the blank field would show signs
of distortion from metal flow of the image on the opposite side of the
blank as well as some effect from the opposite die imparted through the
other blank. Also the there would be little or no rim on the blank
side. This is not the case with the coin shown in the picture, this
coin seems to have a rather deep rim which seems to go along with the
previous consensus that this was a hollowed out cent coin. The side of
the coin with an image shown in the picture has a "normal" looking
border. If this was a 2 blank brockage there would most likely be a
consideable "wire rim" or "fin" around the border where the metal
flowed around the neck of the die if the 2 pieces were retained in the
coining collar when struck, or there would be signs of a broad-strike
is the die that struck this side was on the ram die and the piece was
not completey in the collar. This coin shows none of these
characteristics from what I can see in the photos.

Sean Moffatt
Operations Manager
Hoffman Mint

Scott Stevenson wrote:
On 30 Oct 2005 20:33:20 -0800, "dmzcompute"
wrote:

Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What
is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be
wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me.


I think you're right--it looks like I can see a rim on the "blank"
side, so this would be the hollowed out half.

take care,
Scott


 




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