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I have a 1903 Indian Head penny, it looks like the Indian was scraped down to the silver to make it pop out. And the back of the coin is engraved and says: "To Eddie from Bettie, May 31 1905". Was the engraving of coins a common practice back then? And Does it make the coin unique? Here are front and back pictures of the coin:   |
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It's a love token, which was a fairly common thing to do with coins back then. Indian Head cents don't contain silver (they're bronze), but this one appears to have been gold plated after being carved up. As a 1903 Indian Head cent it doesn't have much value as it's a common date and is damaged. I couldn't speak to the value/collectability as a love token, however. |
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Thats pretty cool where did you find it?
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Thanks for the replies. And It was in the penny tray at my mom's work. I like it because it has a story behind it.
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What a great place to find this lol.
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I like it because it has a story behind it. As well you should. There's not another like it, anywhere. It's highly unlikely that you'll ever know who, but some descendant, somewhere, would treasure it as the most important possession in their lives. You can't assign a value to something like that. |
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You can't beat the price "found in a penny tray" and this cent is truly a love token in its purest form. Very nice! Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Since that isn't a valuable date I think the engraving has added value to the coin. Someone will pay for a unique item like that.
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Interesting piece for sure !
Be cool if you could find the family
and the story behind it !
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I think that is solder on the obverse.
The token may have been attached to something in the past.
Great find.
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"Interesting piece for sure !
Be cool if you could find the family
and the story behind it !"
Yeah, I would love to find out what became of Eddie and Bettie.
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 to this here community. That thing is awesome, imagine someone passing it on as a penny! My User Name- do you collect coins or did you just happen to notice this coin and wanted to know about it? |
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rachums107, Thanks for the welcome and I have a coin collection, It's not big and I haven't put time and money into building it. I'm definitely no expert so I just wanted to know more about this coin. I actually just looked at what I have and I think my oldest U.S. coin is a 1901 Liberty head nickel and my oldest foreign coin is a 1916 Republic of Cuba Un Centavo. Some of the foreign coins do not have the dates in English though. My other U.S. coins include: Silver Roosevelt dimes, a Buffalo nickel, two Mercury dimes, a Standing Liberty quarter, a Steel Cent, a Standing Liberty Half Dollar , a few war time nickels, a Susan B. Anthony dollar, Several Bicentennial Quarters and a lot of Wheat Pennies. Also I have a lot of Sacagawea and Presidential dollar coins. And I some how have a ton of Kennedy half dollar coins. Most of what I have has all been found, only a few older coins were bought as gifts and all of the new dollar coins were gifts. |
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