Encased coins anyone?

BustDMs

I have a couple unusual ones. One is still in its original box.

MsMorrisine

love em

Klif50

I like that one a lot!

Jimnight

First one I've seen with a silver dollar. Very nice!

BustDMs

@Jimnight said:
First one I've seen with a silver dollar. Very nice!

Well now you’ve seen two!

ricko

First two for me as well... I have not previously seen encased Morgans. Cents, nickels, dimes and quarters... no halves either. Cheers, RickO

tokenpro

The U.S. Buick encased dollars come in two major varieties and are uncommon but far from rare. A bit more difficult to obtain are the three Canadian encased coins promoting the 1940 Buicks which include a Canadian1940 1c, a 1939 10c in a brass encasement and a 1939 commemorative dollar also encased in brass. I believe that all the dimes & dollars I've seen have been 1939 dated (the 1940 issues may not have been available when the encasements were struck).

(images courtesy of icollector)

JBK

Very ironic. Sounds like Buick had big plans for the 1940s. :'(

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WAYNEAS

Although I will not buy any of these, they are very interesting.
Wayne

HashTag

Yolo

bdperdue404

For more information on encased coins visit my webpage http://www.encasedcoins.info
I have the only website about encased coins.

Bruce

vplite99

Reminds us of when a dollar was a dollar.

NumisOxide

Cool

ZoidMeister

@bdperdue404 said:
For more information on encased coins visit my webpage http://www.encasedcoins.info
I have the only website about encased coins.

Bruce

URL says so, but the page definitely isn't encased coins related. Not sure this isn't a "1st post" phishing attempt. Got all kinds of security alerts trying to hit this page.

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@tokenpro said:
The U.S. Buick encased dollars come in two major varieties and are uncommon but far from rare. A bit more difficult to obtain are the three Canadian encased coins promoting the 1940 Buicks which include a Canadian1940 1c, a 1939 10c in a brass encasement and a 1939 commemorative dollar also encased in brass. I believe that all the dimes & dollars I've seen have been 1939 dated (the 1940 issues may not have been available when the encasements were struck).

(images courtesy of icollector)

I have seen a couple of the Buick encased Canada dollars, but never bought one. Both were 1939 coins.

PS:
Of your three Canadian Buick encasements, one is Pontiac

ZoidMeister

But, I am glad he did a Zombie thread resurrection
on this one. I've been meaning to do it myself.

Recently started looking into encased coins and picked up this one . . . . .

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ZoidMeister

Firewall problems here at work . . . . . regrets for the multiple post.

tokenpro

@bdperdue404 said:
For more information on encased coins visit my webpage http://www.encasedcoins.info
I have the only website about encased coins.

Bruce

Bruce,
Did anyone save the topical lists from the old Encased Collectors Of America (?) site? I thought I had the Chevy "S.A." list copied somewhere but now I can't find it. Was any of that good info salvaged or did the owner just shut it down cold?

ZoidMeister

@tokenpro said:

@bdperdue404 said:
For more information on encased coins visit my webpage http://www.encasedcoins.info
I have the only website about encased coins.

Bruce

Bruce,
Did anyone save the topical lists from the old Encased Collectors Of America (?) site? I thought I had the Chevy "S.A." list copied somewhere but now I can't find it. Was any of that good info salvaged or did the owner just shut it down cold?

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Token,

If you have the old URL / web address, let me see if I can find and resurrect it.

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erwindoc

I have a bunch of wheat cents that are like this.

Jzyskowski1

Low rent 🤓🙀

ElmerFusterpuck

These are cool to look at, I only have one myself. Could not pass this encased cent up because of the date.

SoCalBigMark

ZoidMeister

I've been intrigued by a few encased coins myself as of late.

Lincoln cent are all too common and Indian Head cents tend towards the upper range of my budget right now, so I've been accumulating other denominations of encased coins.

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ZoidMeister

Even foreign, although the advertising is in English.

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Jzyskowski1

My grandson is a young collector (8) and showed me his encased coin (he was watching me post). Had to say it was fun trying to explain. Gotta love kids 🤓🙀😂 he made a pretty good argument

ZoidMeister

@Jzyskowski1 said:
My grandson is a young collector (8) and showed me his encased coin (he was watching me post). Had to say it was fun trying to explain. Gotta love kids 🤓🙀😂 he made a pretty good argument

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That's awesome . .

I see his point.

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koynekwest

@ZoidMeister said:

@Jzyskowski1 said:
My grandson is a young collector (8) and showed me his encased coin (he was watching me post). Had to say it was fun trying to explain. Gotta love kids 🤓🙀😂 he made a pretty good argument

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That's awesome . .

I see his point.

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I see his point, too.

bdperdue404

As a big collector of encased coins see encasedcoins.info/ my website on encased coins. I am glad to hear that there are 8 y/o's are having fun collecting encased. I also have a newsletter about encased. See my website to join the list.

jmlanzaf

@bdperdue404 said:
As a big collector of encased coins see encasedcoins.info/ my website on encased coins. I am glad to hear that there are 8 y/o's are having fun collecting encased. I also have a newsletter about encased. See my website to join the list.

Can't you just start a thread spamming your site and not resurrect a bunch of dead threads to make the same point over and over. When you turn the 1st page into a bunch of Zombie threads, you're just annoying us.

ZoidMeister

@jmlanzaf said:

@bdperdue404 said:
As a big collector of encased coins see encasedcoins.info/ my website on encased coins. I am glad to hear that there are 8 y/o's are having fun collecting encased. I also have a newsletter about encased. See my website to join the list.

Can't you just start a thread spamming your site and not resurrect a bunch of dead threads to make the same point over and over. When you turn the 1st page into a bunch of Zombie threads, you're just annoying us.

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I for one, am glad he resurrected this thread. I have some recent acquisitions that I need to get photos of. Any information site is always welcome, not spam.

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@bdperdue404 said:
As a big collector of encased coins see encasedcoins.info/ my website on encased coins. I am glad to hear that there are 8 y/o's are having fun collecting encased. I also have a newsletter about encased. See my website to join the list.

JBK

He's a new(er) member getting caught up on relevant threads.

ldhair

WillieBoyd2

This item has an address but no city, but a little research found that it was from Louisville Kentucky.

Egyptian Tea Room, Louisville, Encased Cent 1931 Lucky Penny
Specs: Aluminum, 35mm, 6.05gm

Obverse: Horseshoe / KEEP ME AND NEVER GO BROKE
Reverse: EGYPTIAN TEA ROOM / 617 SOUTH 4TH / WHERE YOUR FUTURE IS REVEALED
Encased: Lincoln Cent 1931 (Philadelphia)

The Egyptian Tea Room was a famous nightclub in Louisville Kentucky which operated from 1931 to 1940.
It was located at 617 South 4th Street.
During Prohibition it was run as a "speakeasy" where alcohol was served.
The club offered fortune telling and tea leaf readings.

JBK

I have a horseshoe-shaped 1901 Pan Am Expo encased cent that I'll have to dig out at some point

ZoidMeister

Okay, I was going to wait until it arrived before posting this one, but I am like a kid at Christmas over it.

We've all seen examples of coins encased within a "token", but when is the last time you've seen a "token" encased within a coin?

Production notes by its maker: Struck inside of a holed 1964 Kennedy Silver Half Dollar. Inside token is pewter.

Struck at the 2004 Georgia 40th Anniversary convention on the minimint.

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JBK

Fantastic!

ZoidMeister

I thought I would resurrect this old thread with something I haven't shown in quite a while. It is a mash up of two separate topics actually - Encased Coins & Masonic Pennies . . . . .

This "encased cent" really delivers it's 2¢ worth. Weighing in at over 10oz, this 63mm diameter x 10mm thick example is the largest encased coin that I own.

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