My son received a two-headed coin in change. Is this a rare and valuable coin?
There seems to be a lot of this going around lately. No, it’s not rare and it isn’t valuable. The two-headed or two-tailed coins are commercially manufactured by hollowing out one coin and cutting down a second to fit inside it. This means that the seam or joint is on the rim on one side, or along the inside edge of the rim. Most people will tell you to look at the edge for the seam, but that’s incorrect, as it’s extremely difficult to make one that way. We know it’s an altered coin because the U.S. Mint has never intentionally or accidentally issued a two-headed coin, as the coin presses are made so that it’s virtually impossible to get two obverse or two reverse dies in the die holders.