Came across this magician nickel coin roll hunting.
Timbobb
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That's always a fun find !
This is a coin where the third side is the most interesting.
Yep.... Tails I win... every time...
I have read when asked to call heads or tails... the statistical majority will say heads....so a double tail coin is a good bet, but I would have both handy... 
Cheers, RickO
Cool!
Just curious....do the obverse and reverse exhibit "medal alignment" or "coin alignment" or neither. The photos seem to indicate they exhibit "coin alignment".
Coin alignment. Horizontal axis.
Nice roll find. I have only found one in many tens of thousands of coins searched.
I can't help but imagine some poor magician stuck up on stage with a trick that won't work because he has accidentally spent his prop coin.
I have found a few half dollar magician coins. Always had believed I had found a rotated die until I dropped the coin and it popped open.
Couple of years ago the bank called me and said a customer had a two headed quarter and wondered if I would take a look at it. It had two different mint marks and when put under my stereo microscope I could see the seam where two obverse quarters were put together. He was an older gentleman and had said his brother had given it to him years ago under the pretense it was worth some money. He was very disappointed, as I was too for him.
You might say, this is one half of a magician coin.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/This-Item-Is-A-Nickle-I-Found-At-Work-One-Side-Is-Not-There/383468032405?hash=item594879d195:g:9MsAAOSwNsdeaGuR
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
Very true tho... @Timbobb post a pic of the edge!
Some of these two heads/tails coins won't have a seam on the edge - some will have it around the inside of the rim on one side, where the coin was machined out and the piece "dropped in".