1902 Indian Cent From The 1906 Earthquake

Either the Souvenir Ring or the Indian cent is mis-aligned...
I remember growing up in the late 50's and early 60's where almost every place one would visit that sold Souvenirs, sold "Lucky Penny" souvenirs for something like 25 Cents each...

I just thought it was cool ..
I guess you never know if really was recovered from the earthquake ..

But then .. like mackwork posted .. no reason to thinkit wouldn't be

Here is a photo of a like piece.

IGE .. thanks for the post. I will do a search for that site.

Looks like mine could be real .. I think I will keep it in my collection

Edit- Wow did I get this somewhat wrong! Frederick Earl Fankhauser was just a major manufacturer. These were around since the turn of the century. There are examples from the 1901 Pan American exposition. Still, the "Lucky Penny" versions were later. If you really want to be sure, there is an inquiry link on the Encased Coin site. I bet someone there already knows all about it.




There is no way to verify that it was or wasn't in an earthquake. It just is what it is. I did some research on the process and found that it was started by Frederick Earl Fankhauser in 1948. If you want to read all about it, here's a link. There's a whole site devoted to Encased Coins:

http://www. (149) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed .org/Articles%20File/Collecting%20Encased%20Coins.htm

So for this to really have been in an earthquake, someone would have needed to save them from the time of the cleanup (date?) to after 1948. Possible. Either way, it's still a fun piece.

What's really interesting is how feelings about tragedies change over time. Hand this penny to someone now and they say, "pretty cool". Doubt you'd get the same reaction in 1907.

Im still looking for one of them....

Thats pretty cool. Why couldn't it be from the earthquake!

Captain Morgan - I feel the same way. In the last couple years I have been buying complete collections.
Most of them have a few tokens, that I have just put into a desk drawer. The last collection had a 10 or 12 interesting tokens. Now I am starting to get more interested in them. This SF earthquake token is now in a dollar 2x2 and I started a 2x2 box just for tokens.

I wonder what tokens other coin collectors like?




I guess you never know what some people will fake.

From what research I have done so far, I do believe this could be a real coin from the earthquake. I would like to find where and when these tokens were sold and when the coins were recovered.