I didn't realize anything was wrong with until I tried to buy a bottle of pop in a machine and it rejected it. Is it valuable?
2006-07-18 06:54:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
yes it is very valuable just for starters $1200 then go from there with date, quality and mint. Go to your local book store and purchase a coin collectors bible.
Hope this helps
2006-07-18 07:03:08 · answer #1 · answered by Zoner 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Here's the CORRECT answer. I am a coin dealer in the Midwest. I don't know where that one guy got $1200 from but he obviously knows nothing about coins.
What you have there is a "flipping coin". These coins have been made by people for hundreds of years from different coins. It is something that has been put together from 2 different coins. The old style flipping coins were just 2 ground down coins sandwiched together, leaving a seam around the edge. More modern ones are a little trickier...you look at the edge and there's no seam. However, if you look around the inside edge of one side or the other, you'll see a seam. What they did was hollow out one coin, then slightly grind down another and the drop it inside of the hollowed-out one. It makes the piece look more believable. Basically these coins were used to win bets, for novelty coins, or to dupe unknowing non-experts into buying them as a rare error, which obviously they aren't.
We see these all the time...mostly on quarters and half dollars, although this has been done in virtually every denomination of coin. They are mainly conversation pieces with no real value, as they are technically damaged/altered coins.
The way coins are struck, both the obverse (heads) and reverse (tails) side are struck at the same time...thus making it impossible to have a coin that was naturally struck with two heads or two tails. There are errors where a coin is struck normally, accidentally flipped over, then struck again, but in those cases you will see elements of both obverse and reverse, on each side....not 2 heads or 2 tails.
I hope this info helps you out.
2006-07-19 11:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by answerman63 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I guess you can find someone that can determine if it is real or a fake. Just try looking in your yellow pages for coin collectors, or do a search for coin collectors in your area.
2006-07-18 14:03:45 · answer #3 · answered by littlevivi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not valuable because it is a trick coin, one for winning a game of heads or tails
2006-07-18 14:47:06 · answer #4 · answered by chris j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a fake coin, magicians use it in their tricks. It always comes up heads.. so the magician is never wrong.
2006-07-18 13:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by fuhreezing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it to a coin collecters shop ad have them look at it.
2006-07-18 15:23:37 · answer #6 · answered by kwingfan13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mail it to me, I can tell you how much it is worth.
2006-07-18 13:59:05 · answer #7 · answered by smokingun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋