Do You Have a Two-Headed Coin?
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Looking through a roll of quarters tonight, I found a two-headed one! I've always heard of those magician coins but never had one, and never thought I'd stumble upon one. Looking closely, you can see the seam pretty easily. Does anyone have a two headed or two tailed coin??? Heads....I win. 
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yes. a kennedy but the join might be something like epoxy. it apparently made it though a coin counter and into a shotgun roll
Here's mine. You can see the cutout around the edges of the P side.
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The 1904 and 1905 Lewis and Clark commemorative gold dollars are the only legitimate two headed US coins that I'm aware of. Are there any others?
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Here's mine.
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I found a two-tailed nickel in a roll of nickels once.
I always liked this video
https://youtu.be/kHMZByJl61c because he shows how to make the tools to make the double headed coin.
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@Fraz I should've known this would pop up!!
Wow @OAKSTAR You opened yours up!
I almost missed it and threw it back. Looking through a box of nickels a few years ago, I threw it into the dump pile and the sound caught my attention. I pulled it out and weight it. It's very light. I bounced it off the counter top and it popped open. I'm afraid to put it back together. I may not get it opened again.
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One of these looks like it was welded together
Tom
Even Wheaties?!! I never knew there were so many. I've got to weigh my two headed quarter now, makes sense it's hollowed out...should be much lighter.
Magicians use a small device called a bang ring to separate them but you can also separate them by shaking them in the bottom of a glass!
My bank called me once and said a customer had a rare two-headed Roosevelt dime and wanted to get it appraised. When I met with the gentleman he informed me his brother had given it to him years ago, and that his brother had paid good money for the purchase. I had to sadly inform him that it was a magician’s coin, to his disbelief. Fortunately, I had my scale, laptop and portable stereo microscope to prove the coin wasn’t a rare error. He was in awe and couldn’t believe it. Sadly disappointed as well.
I own TEN Two-Headed coins, and mine even got CAC to sticker them:
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
Sorry, but I thought of this coin. Two heads on obverse, Lafayette depicted on both sides of the coin. Oops, Steve beat me to it.
Oops, Steve beat me to it.
By just a few minutes!!!
As they say, "You snooze, you lose", lol
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
The proper term for coins having two heads side-by-side on the same side is "jugate busts".
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
While that's true, virtually NO ONE knows what that means. However, they do understand a Two Headed coin (one way or the other, lol).
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
Technically the term for two heads on the same side of a coin is "jugate." The term is used among political items collectors. If you find a 1920 jugate button that looks like this, it's worth $35,000 and up. And no it's not mine.
Yes, that is Franklin Roosevelt running for vice president with James Cox. That's the main reason why the button is so expensive, in addition to its rarity. Roosevelt is the only man who was the VP candidate on a losing ticket who was eventually elected president.
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This is the only known certified modern U.S. coin that is ‘two headed’. It was struck by two obverse dies!
Finally got around to weighing my two headed quarter and compared it to 10 other quarters. 6 weighed .197 oz. 3 weighed in at .201 oz. 1 weighed .193 and the two headed one weighed .208 oz. So it was just a tad heavier.