Finding the conditional expectation, a box with $6$ coins

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A box contain $6$ coins, $3$ coins are regular, in two coins there are $"T"$ in both sides, and in one coin there is $"H"$ in both sides, we takig randomly one coin and throwing it $100$ times.

find the expectation value of the number of throwing that we got $"T"$

My try:

Let us denote $A_1$ the incident that we got a regular coin

$A_2$ the incident that we got the coin with $"T"$ in both sides

$A_3$ the incident that we got the coin with $"H"$ in both sides

$$E[X]=E[X|A_1]P(A_1)+E[X|A_2]P(A_2)+E[X|A_3]P(A_3)\\\frac 1 2E[X|A_1]\cdot \frac 1 3E[X|A_2]\cdot\frac 1 6\cdot E[X|A_3]$$

I'm stuck about calculating $E[X|A_i]$ for $1\leq i\leq 3$

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Does a regular coin has "H" on one side and "T" on the other?

If so, than $E(X|A_1)= 50$