double headed

[Guest john hynes]

hi....i noticed in my change when i tried to get a cup of tea at work a 5p coin that would not go in the machine so when i looked at it closer it has the queens head on both sides and is dated 1990...now it does not seem to be joined together in anyway so i think it might be a cock up by royal mint...has anyone ever come across one before or how do i check to see if its real or not because it looks real to me....if real is it worth anything...many thanks john

[Chris Perkins 228]

If it didn't fit in the machine then it's bound to be a clever made up one using a hollowed out coin with a smaller one stuck in the hollowed gap.

If it were a single 5p piece of metal then it would have been accepted in the machine as most machine measure size, weight and conductivity.

[Guest john hynes]

hi chris in most cases i would agree...but with our drinks machine its the same problem with every 5p...sometimes they go in other times you stand there for a minute in it goes out it comes...had them out to it a few times...but at the end of the day why would someone do that to a 5p coin...now a 10p or 50p as a double headed coin i could understand...weird...