Teddy Roosevelt Pop Out Coin
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Hello everyone,
I found a Teddy Roosevelt pop out coin while I was out metal detecting in Caroline County, VA a few months ago. It was made out of a silver plated wheat Penny and it looks like it was converted to a ring. I'm just curious if anybody knows any more information about it. From what I can tell, it was used for his presidential campaign but the only other one like it that I can find online was made out of a barber quarter. That one sold for $1,650. I'm curious what this one might be worth. Hopefully the pictures work!
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Maybe the 1912 campaign. Neat piece.
Roosevelt is one of the better pop-outs, but pop-out coins don't get a lot of love in general. I'd expect yours might be worth on the order of $20. Maybe a bit more. Maybe nothing, if you can't find anyone who wants it.
Sweet detecting find, though!
Weird but way neat
Cool pick up! I haven't seen a Roosevelt one before.
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Cool, never seen one before.
perhaps @ThePennyLady can chime in when she gets back from the her booth at the coin show. she knows a bit about this stuff.
These are known as repousse coinage. TR is an unusual one to find, but Barber coinage with the pop out head of Liberty is much more common. The value you state ($1,650) appears well out of the range I have ever seen anything like this trade for previously, so I suspect there was something else going on with the other coin. If you have a link to the previous sale please let us see it so we can examine it, too.
Nonetheless, it is a very cool find.
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Good afternoon, Here is the link that I found talking about the other coin. The design on the front was different than the one I found.
https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/pop-out-roosevelt-barber-quarter-sale-sets-new-record
Thank you for the link. That is very cool. I'd guess this would go for a fair bit more than other pieces, but can't give you a real estimate. Good luck with its value.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Thank you, I appreciate it. This one seems pretty rare. I'll keep checking around.
I have JFK pop outs - 3D half dollars. I have never seen this one and it is a real neat coin.
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There was a book on these that we have … im not in office but remind me with a pm or email and I’ll look it up
Side note the author of the book self published 100 copies he past away the day they were delivered. His good friend sold them to honor his memory
Okay, will do. Thanks!
Likely thinking about https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Periodical/13799
Just back from FUN - the 1904 Teddy Roosevelt repousse cents in this style are not scarce. They were made for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis which Teddy attended - this is why the date on the patent bar is '04. You will find them on stickpins, bracelets, fobs and other souvenir type items as well as free standing. Teddy was featured on posters, silk ribbons, souvenir china and many other items and souvenirs from the St. Louis World's Fair (LPE). There are other types of repousse strikes also attributed to this exposition.
Many on ebay,some cheapies under $5.
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This one is on a Lincoln cent.
Perhaps the patent strip was added when the ring loop was added.
If it was made for the 1904 Expo... Why is it on a Wheat cent?
There's one in every crowd.
My guess is that maybe the 1904 die was dusted off for his 1912 campaign.
Back in the 1980s someone used some vintage repousse Liberty dies and used them on then-current coins. I have a half dollar example.
I too am just back from the fantastic, crazy busy FUN show. I agree with tokenpro. While they are fun and very interesting, they are not scarce and thus don't usually carry a hefty price tag. They probably run in the $50-$200 range in general, depending on the quality and type of the piece.
Here are a coupe of my Roosevelt repousees:
And here are several other various repousees I have in my collection:
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@ThePennyLady---The second cent that you posted looks like President William Howard Taft based on the shape of his mustache and the lack of glasses.
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Thank you. I appreciate you providing this information.
A couple quick things:
Charmy's piece is indeed William Howard Taft and was used as a political piece for the 1908 Presidential campaign and after as speculated by several posters above.
The two patent dates usually seen are Aug. 11 '03 and Nov. 22 '04 but of course coins were struck well after the patent bar dates. The repousses proved to be so popular at the 1904 LPE that they were used for jewelry, political campaigns, fraternal organizations and other expositions for many more years.
This continuing popularity of an exposition souvenir is not unique to St. Louis and repousses. Elongated coins were first introduced on a mass scale at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago but continued to be rolled as a ubiquitous souvenir at expositions large and small right up to the present. The encased cent was first introduced in large quantities at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, then continued at St. Louis, Portland in 1905, Jamestown in 1907, the AYPE in 1909 continuing right up to the 1964 New York World's Fair and on.
Many of the famous people repousses were made in the early 1930's -- there are point-of-sale signs and cardboard holders for individual pins with a 1930 copyright date. Most of the coins in the first image are from that promotion - George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Indian Heads, Ben Franklin, several of which had been struck for many years before.