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Heads or Tails ?
Onastone
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Used to be you could flip a coin and call Heads or Tails and actually get a head or a tail. 
Nowadays you never know what you'll get. You could call out Heads or Heads and win everytime! 
Should we check the coin we're flipping before calling for heads or tails? Heads or ships? Heads or flowers? What's the craziest combination you can find?
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If you can use error coins there are quite a few contenders.
If you are a new collector of vintage commemorative coins, try to figure which side is the head or tail. One reason I didn't start collecting the series was a slabbed set would look crazy. They make no sense. Sometimes the event is the obverse and sometimes it is the denomination. The reference books don't agree either! I'm glad this fact discouraged me because back then prices were very much higher than they are today.
Use a known H/T coin.
Does the issuing mint say which is which?
I think it’s just easier than calling obverse or reverse.
I think the only two headed US coin is the1904 and 1905 Lewis and Clark commemorative gold dollar.
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How about “heads or…..heads”?
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IMO, this is the way they should all be orientated. Date and coin subject obverse with the denomination on the reverse. Not like the Antietam, Arkansas, Bay Bridge, on and on half dollars!
Mint and tails?
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The ancient Romans invented the concept of flipping a coin to determine the outcome of a choice by random chance - or by "the will of the gods", as they'd have seen it. The most common coin in the early Republic period was the large copper as, which had a depiction of the two-faced god Janus on the obverse and the prow of a ship on the reverse. Thus, when a Roman flipped a coin in the air to make a decision, they would call out "capita aut navia", translating to "heads or ships". That same call, sometimes reversed as "navia aut caput", remained in common usage, long after the coinage actually depicting heads and ships had ceased to be issued, as attested by Macrobius, who wrote about the coin-tossing street game in the mid-400s AD - some 500 years after the end of the ships-and-heads coinage.
The Romans sometimes issued double-headed coins. Presumably they avoided using those coins when playing that game.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
What about the Lafayette Dollar, the Alabama half, the Monroe half, the Huguenot half, etc., etc......
You are of course correct. I meant to say "US gold coin".
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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