Cool drawer finds over the weekend including 1901 Souvenir Encased Cent

xbob

Just sharing.... I had a visit from my mother over the weekend and she gave me these. They were found cleaning out her late Aunt's dresser (geez, that sounds like an ebay story - but it's actually true this time). It's mostly worthless but pretty cool to me. I hope there's more to come!

Too bad the Nickel wasn't a year older (and not a Buffalo)! And in better condition.

I Googled the 1901 Pan-American Expo and found out that the Good Luck encased cent was a souvenir sold for 2 cents at the Expo.

The Kennedy stamped Lincoln cent is almost certainly from one of those bookmarks comparing coincidences about Lincoln and Kennedy. There was even a glue glob on the back that I had to Acetone off.

lordmarcovan

I love that encased Indian cent!

Very cool.

You DID check the reverse of that Liberty nickel for a mintmark, right? Maybe there's a cute little "S" hiding next to that dot on the left?

I remember those Lincoln/Kennedy cents from my early days as a young collector in the 1970's. And the state-outline ones, too.

xbob

You bet I checked - No "S" on that Nickel.

Interesting note about the Lincoln - there's no "LI" and only half of a faint "B" on LIBERTY. My suspicion is that whatever process they used to punch the Kennedy face in also flattened the LIB. Perhaps it held the coin there. Or maybe it was just a filled die cent originally.