Can a token be struct on an IHC or....

coinsarefun

......clashed with and Indian Head Cent?

I have been looking at this token I received today. I thought at first the reverse was clashed with the obverse
die. But the lines don't match up.

I overlaid an IHC and the clash marks line up except for the lines between the N & T of CENT on the token.

Do they sometimes strike tokens over IHC's?


Maybe they made the tokens by taking an impression of a real IHC and that one had a clash?

I may be reaching here and it may be a common anomaly but was wondering what happened.


Stefanie





My token








the light color one is my IHC for reference

seanq

There are plenty of Civil War tokens struck over Indian cents, but that is not what you have. There is no way to strike just one side of a coin, any die strike strong enough to obliterate the Indian would also obliterate the wreath.

The reverse of your token is modeled very closely after an Indian cent but it is a privately made die. Compare the picture of your coin to the Indian cent reverse in your last picture and you can see several subtle differences: the shield is not centered, the top of the ribbon is different, the arrow feathers lack detail, the first leaf on the left from the bow curls in the opposite direction, etc. The lines you see are either tooling marks on the die or clashes from a different obverse (many CWT obverses are modeled after the Indian head obverse).


Sean Reynolds