Strange back of penny

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Psu7685
Psu7685 Posts: 1 ✭
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Has anyone seen a penny with a back like this?


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  • Derek4949
    Derek4949 Posts: 2 ✭
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    Yes I have. I have no idea tho.
    What it is

  • World67
    World67 Posts: 13,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Derek4949 said:
    Yes I have. I have no idea tho.
    What it is

    Heh

  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You need the other half to be a Prestidigitator. Good luck. Peace Roy

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  • Barbercoin1
    Barbercoin1 Posts: 14 ✭
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    I used to have one just like it and that's what I was told it was.

  • cheezhed
    cheezhed Posts: 6,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Psu7685 said:
    Has anyone seen a penny with a back like this?


    How did you acquire it? Under what pretenses was it sold to you?

    Many happy BST transactions
  • lilolme
    lilolme Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Here is a thread with video on the 'magic' coin making. Might see some similarities.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1076369/the-making-of-a-magicians-coin

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=OwZlYz2V4AM Sophie Lloyd, guitar shred cover Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=fbEW8BrNctI Haley Reinhart, Don't Know How To Love You Live (direct to record)

    RLJ 1958 - 2023

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They been around for many years

  • Greenstang
    Greenstang Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Have seen that numerous times on the various coin forums. That is only 1/2 of the
    Magicians coin. Sometimes a dime may be milled and inserted or the head of another
    cent to make a two headed cent. No value unless you want to keep it as a novelty.

  • Fraz
    Fraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 15, 2024 5:19PM
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  • DBSTrader2
    DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭✭
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    hollowed-out by Russian spies for sending chips & messages during the Cold War & beyond. Usually under the cover of being "magicians"! ;)

  • Jacques_Loungecoque
    Jacques_Loungecoque Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Back in my law enforcement adjacent years there was apprehended a user with an Ike similar to this in which he kept a few of baggies of heroin. The arresting officer was an amateur, albeit just knowledgeable enough, coin collector. When he emptied dude’s pockets the dollar caught his eye.

    It was the mid-90’s but even then you didn’t the old General getting around too much. Out of innocent curiosity he looked deeper at the coin and noticed something wasn’t quite right.

    Eventually when the case was over he “requisitioned” the Ike from property and kept in framed at his desk when he transferred to CID in the well earned position of detective.

    Having fun while switching things up and focusing on a next level PCGS slabbed 1950+ type set, while still looking for great examples for the 7070.

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