Unknown U, S(?) Coin? | Counterfeit/Fake Cent Made From Button

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Logan09 New Member United States 16 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 8:29 pm Found this after looking through some old coins. Any help would be appreciated. Usually I don't bother with these, but just curious. Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 8:32 pm Its an earlier Indian Head cent copper nickel I think and then smashed in a vise against another coin, perhaps? Report this Post to the Staff
Logan09 New Member United States 16 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 8:42 pm Thanks, I think that's exactly what it is. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16874 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 9:20 pm One side has a mirror-image of a US cent. The other side is the back of an old brass button. I suspect it's someone's crude attempt to make a counterfeit cent from a button; presumably it was done back when Indian Head cents were the current design. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 09/21/2010 12:14 pm I'm not sure what the host item was, it might be a button, might be a token. Can't make out much of th lettering on it. But what ever it is it has been squeezed between two Indian Head cents. (Both sides show a reversed Indian Head cent) Report this Post to the Staff
odentheviking Valued Member United States 425 Posts	Posted 11/07/2010 12:46 pm As a teenager, I worked at a iron mill for a time. They had a over head crane that ran on a small set of train tracks. I placed a nickle on a quarter and set them on the track. After the crane went past, the coins were not really flattened, but Jeffersons profile was clearing imprinted onto Washingtons and vise-versa. Report this Post to the Staff
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Unknown U, S(?) Coin? | Fake Cent Made From Button