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Unknown Coin Or Token Struck On US 2 Cent Piece?

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 Posted 10/07/2018  03:31 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 1796NoPole to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here I've come across a circulated 1864 US 2-cent piece with an unidentified overstrike. On the 2-cent's obverse is the number 20 encircled in a wreath that looks very much like one that would appear on a US coin; the reverse shows another 20 surrounded by some lettering, of which I can only make out NING * S; no idea what that could be. The obverse looks somewhat like a design on two pattern 20-cent pieces of 1875, but it is not that design because the numeral font isn't quite correct for that. Is there any foreign coin of approximately the 1860s that corresponds to this overstrike? Possibly even something associated with the US 20-cent piece, maybe a ca. 1875 splasher or Linderman midnight minting? Or is this just a token? Is it even a legitimate overstrike, or just some vise job PMD? It is raised, centered, and looks as legit as an overstrike on a heavily circulated coin can look, but I don't even know what the strike is, so it could certainly be a fake fantasy piece. Judge for yourselves.

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 Posted 10/07/2018  05:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add zookeeperz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Underlying coin is 1864 Union Shield 2 Cents. I think the wording is possibly VINGT which appears on coins with a french flavour. Better with the coin sitting how it should look. Not sure if it helps any. I have no idea what the other coin in the mix is but just throwing something in the ring :). Also If it is NING could be German PFENNING is how the older spelling is

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 Posted 10/25/2018  08:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jadey to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The 20 with wreath looks similar to what I've seen on some 20 Reis coins.
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