First (novelty) gold plated half VIA a coin roll search
Duh_OZ
find now and then in rolls. Still haven't run across a proof, and
alas the 90% ones have been eluding me. Got a whopping 1, 40% in a
box of halves ($500)
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m73/oz_il/coins/plated_40_percent_halves.jpg
john...@netzero.net
I've been searching rolls of half dollars for several years now, and
along with a bucketful of silver (three Franklins and a lot of 40
percent and 90 percent Kennedys), I've found two of those trick/
magician's coins. One has two heads, and the other has a heads side
and a tails side, but rotated. Both make a rattling sound when
dropped on the table, and I can see the seam where the separate halves
are joined. So far, I haven't been able to open or separate either
coin. Anyone know the trick to do that?
john
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Duh_OZ
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1,011 plated???
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>On Mar 20, 5:19=A0pm, some...@some.domain wrote:
>> In article <14024803-9922-4c8f-b100-51d0b1465...@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.=
>com>, johnn...@netzero.net wrote:
>>
>> >On Mar 19, 8:55 pm, Duh_OZ <ozzy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Now all I need is one of those 'trick' two head (or tail) ones people
>> >> alas the 90% ones have been eluding me. =A0 =A0Got a whopping 1, 40% i=
>n a
>> >> box of halves ($500)
>>
>..
>>
>> >I've been searching rolls of half dollars for several years now, and
>> >along with a bucketful of silver (three Franklins and a lot of 40
>> >percent and 90 percent Kennedys), I've found two of those trick/
>> >and a tails side, but rotated. =A0Both make a rattling sound when
>> >dropped on the table, and I can see the seam where the separate halves
>> >coin. =A0Anyone know the trick to do that?
>>
>> >john
>>
>> try a number 11 xacto blade. i've found 1011 gold plated halfs but no dou=
>ble
>> headers.
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>1,011 plated???
sorry for the typo.
mazorj
<john...@netzero.net> wrote in message
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> On Mar 19, 8:55 pm, Duh_OZ <ozzy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now all I need is one of those 'trick' two head (or tail) ones
>> people
>> find now and then in rolls. Still haven't run across a proof, and
>> alas the 90% ones have been eluding me. Got a whopping 1, 40% in
>> a
>> box of halves ($500)
>>
>> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m73/oz_il/coins/plated_40_percent_...
>
> I've been searching rolls of half dollars for several years now, and
> along with a bucketful of silver (three Franklins and a lot of 40
> percent and 90 percent Kennedys), I've found two of those trick/
> magician's coins.
Last week I hit a bank that had 13 rolls of halves, all from the same
local customer. Got one 1964 and a dozen 40% halves. Most were
beat-up 70's and 80s, only 6 were post-1989. No magician's versions,
but the interesting thing was that I've spent about $30 of them in
change and only once did I get a ho-hum reaction. One guy took all I
had at the time - almost a full roll - because he gives them to his
kids as rewards. Another welcomed them because she saves them for her
kids' education. Several remarked on them, examined them closely, and
swapped them out with their own money even after I told them that they
had no collector value. I don't know what this says for the viability
of the half-dollar but it's popularity ain't dead yet.
john...@netzero.net
> <johnn...@netzero.net> wrote in message
I spend the half dollars every now and then (mostly I spend golden
Sackies and Presibux), but usually take them to Las Vegas and exhange
them for gambling money.
A few years ago, I used a half dollar, along with some golden dollars,
as payment at a restaurant in a mall food court. The cashier had
clearly never seen a half dollar before. Because it's larger than the
new dollar coins, she thought it had a higher value. I explained that
it was 50 cents.
I've also come across a few teen and twentysomething barristas in
Starbucks who had never seen a Kennedy half until I spent one.