encased lucky penny

cdwegner

very neat... Doesn't look VDB though. haha




http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3923002691

Cam40

$10 in trade..uh huh trade fer waht.....
is that a brothel token?

lordmarcovan

That does look very neat.

Y'know, just tonight I was goin' through my detector finds album and remembered I have a 1914 Canadian large cent, that I dug in a park here. When I found it, it was encased like that. Unfortunately, the aluminum outer ring (or whatever it was encased in) was totally corroded and crumbled away. It wasn't ever readable, though after much cleaning, the coin came out OK. I suspect it was a "lucky" encasement. Too bad the shell part (or whatever you call that outside ring) was corroded away. It looked like zinc, actually.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>$10 in trade..uh huh trade fer waht.....
is that a brothel token? >>



Cam40, if you are referring to his icon, that's a "bingle" from Alaska, and a nice one, too. They are listed in the back of the Redbook, now.

Man! I just noticed that was an "S" mint cent in that auction! Way cool! Even if it doesn't have a VDB on the reverse.

lordmarcovan

Here, cdwegner- especially for you...



It's a Bingle tiger. Get it? Hmm? Hmm? A BINGLE tiger?

Ha! I crack myself up!

Smitty79

jhar

those "Good Luck" tokens are really interesting to me. The August 2004 issue of "Numismatist" mentions the colleting of these tokens in it's "Internet Connection" article. www.encasedcollectorsinternational.org is highlighted by the article.

I scanned the site breifly. A whole lot of information, and an interesting collecting specialty!!

granddad

I have a 1904 IHC encased in a 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair good luck encasement. Have had it for years, dont even remember where I got it.

Louis

cdwegner

I wonder what the most valuable coin ever found in encased was. I imagine there is a 1909S VDB out there, too.

does anyone collect irradiated dimes?

shylock

I use to own this full red 1901 Pan-American Expo IH.

cdwegner

lordmarco,

the bingle tiger is most excellent.

c

cdwegner

How hard is it to extract a coin from one of those lucky cases?

They have to come out in better shape than the coins made into jewelry.

lordmarcovan

Shylock- that Indian is sweet!

I like it encased like that, too.

Shamika

Shylock,

How much did that cost you and how much did you sell it for?

lordmarcovan

...and where's the other side?

shylock

LordM - here's the other side, not quite as clean as the reverse. Looks like a 63RD IH if it were gradeable.

Shamika - it sold for $320..

lordmarcovan

Now that's weird. Why the dustpan, I wonder? It's like they swept the coin up off the floor!

I've seen some strange symbols on those old lucky tokens: wishbones, swastikas, horseshoes, clovers, elephants, rabbit's feet, and so on... but that's the first dustpan!

Here's one I dug, with quite an array of symbols on it:

cladking

<< <i>How hard is it to extract a coin from one of those lucky cases?

They have to come out in better shape than the coins made into jewelry. >>



They aren't too hard to get out but they are severely damaged.

Conder101

<< <i>does anyone collect irradiated dimes? >>


Yes there are people who collect them, I've considered doing it but haven't started yet.