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1 Cent Legend, Indian Head, Funny Eagle, Germany ?

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 Posted 09/19/2013  4:21 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add JBL to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I assume that these two oddities are not coins in the currency sense.
The one with the little tag on has the usual inscription of a USA One Cent but a funny looking eagle. The reverse has the Indian Head, 1923 and the word 'Germany'.
The one without the tag is similar but has a very odd 'script' in place of 'United States of America'.
Somewhere at the back of my memory is a vague recollection of a German mint that produced some odd and weird tokens/play money etc so possibly that one ?

Any ideas would be appreciated as to what these two are or are trying to be !! ?

Cheers and thanks
Brian

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 Posted 09/19/2013  4:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JBL to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry, should have added that they are about the size of a USA 1 cent coin.

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Brian
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Usually described as watch fobs, a large percentage have the date 1908. There was probably some rudimentary gilding or silvering when new, but most of these that I've had bear only a light coating of rust.
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*** Moving this to the token section ***
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They are "toy coins", intended for either cheap jewellery or for play money - whatever the purchaser wished to do with them.

The design is very loosely based on the American quarter-eagle and half eagle gold coins, except of course that the design is in regular relief, rather than incuse. And other design differences, of course, such as the lack of a denomination.

As I've said when similar pieces have been posted, the use of the English word "Germany", rather than the German word "Deutschland", indicates these pieces were made for export to an English-speaking country. "1923" might be the actual date of manufacture, or it might be completely fictitious.

The piece with the "odd script" is interesting; as far as I can tell, it is not an actual foreign language but either meaningless gibberish or perhaps a Masonic-style cipher. I suspect it was issued after the first one, with the manufacturer of the first piece being asked very nicely not to put "United States of America" on their toy coins anymore.
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Thanks for moving the post to the correct section, wasn't too sure which was the best page to put the question on.

Thanks for all the info' . It gives me something further to look into, much appreciated.

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Brian.
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These are call Coin/Medal from the 1920'S they are real and legitimate .. You may want to look at Wikipedia to tell you more about these .. What the value are I'm still searching .. I'm sure they should be worth something good. Good Luck !
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Paulino123,
why did you revive this 3 year old thread?

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