1901 Indian Head Cent W/ Rim Anomalies.......error?

My first thought was former Encased Coin. Let's wait for the pros.
John1

And the winner is John1! Yes this has been removed from an encasement from the 1901 Pan American exposition in Buffalo NY. Here is one still in the encasement.

You can see how the leaves and the stem of the four leaf clover overlap the rim of the cent. This OP cent was in a different rotation in the encasement. On the OP coin the mark by the first 1 is where the stem overlapped. On the pictured piece it overlaps by the second 1.

John1 said:



How humble the pro named John1 can be!

@Conder101 - great sleuthing

Thanks all.
John1

I cheated. I've seen a lot of cents removed from encasements with damaged rims, so the encasement idea was a good one. I also know that a lot of souvenir Encased Cents were made at the Pan American Exhibition in 1901 with 1901 Indian Head cents in them. So I went looking for an image of one to see if the marks would match up. They did, so I posted.

Usually you can't find the specific encasement that produces the damaged rim you see on a "removed from encasement", but the 1901 date made it easy because the 1901 Pan American encasements are very well known. If it had been a 1904 I would have gone looking for a 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair encasement. There aren't a lot of Indian Head cent encasements.