Curiosities & Oddities
Two-Headed Coin of Fortune.
A gaffed brass coin with the same proud eagle on both faces, weighted to pass for ordinary: a lucky pocket-piece that can only ever land one way.
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About this product
Call it in the air and watch their face. A coin toss has settled bets and arguments for as long as there have been coins, and this one settles them however you like, as long as you call heads.
It is a brass coin struck with the same proud eagle design on both faces, weighted and finished to pass a casual glance as an ordinary coin until someone actually flips it. Gaffed coins like it, two heads or two tails at the maker's whim, have long been carried by conjurers, carnival operators and sharps, precisely because a toss made with one can only ever land one way. The lucky coin is one of the oldest and most portable pieces of folk superstition, a pocket-piece rubbed for luck by generations of hopeful thumbs. This one simply stacks the odds outright, turning a gamble into a foregone conclusion: a comfort to carry or a small private joke, depending on the day.
Details
- Brass, the same eagle design on both faces
- Weighted and finished to pass as an ordinary coin
- Boxed, with a small card explaining how the trick works
How to use
Keep it in a pocket or on a shelf as a keepsake, or use it exactly as intended: to win a coin toss that was never really in doubt. It is sold as a curiosity, with no promises beyond the coin's own weighted certainty.
A small, shining certainty for an uncertain pocket.
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Two-Headed Coin of Fortune
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