What is this? Liberty twenty dollar coin 1944?

Lucky7

Hello!

I got this coin that i can't find anything about. I've googled for hours and can't find any coin similar to this.

What is this coin? Where does it come from? Is it special?

Best regards,
Luke

Jimnight

It's not a real coin, it's a customized commemorative coin with a key chain attached. IMO.

BigA

It's a privately manufactured piece of jewelry.

ricko

@Lucky7 ...Welcome aboard... Yes, just jewelry, not a real coin. Where are you from? Cheers, RickO

oih82w8

Pictures would be needed to offer any opinions on this item.

Lucky7

These are the pictures!

Lucky7

@oih82w8 said:
Pictures would be needed to offer any opinions on this item.

I uploaded them while you answred. Sorry.

oih82w8

Not a coin. Decorative Keychain fob with Washington Quarter obverse and reverse.

Lucky7

Well i be... What exactally is that if i may ask? (Not from the U.S)

OPA

@BigA said:
It's a privately manufactured piece of jewelry.

And not a very artistic nor attractive one.

Lucky7

Thank you guys so much! This cleared up all of it! I'm from Sweden RickO

BillJones

It's a piece of jewelry patterned after the Washington Quarter. I am a bit surprised that the Secret Service didn't come after the maker of this piece. They have hassled people for lesser offenses like making cookies that looked in like Indian Cents in the 1890s.

WillieBoyd2

I hope that the US Secret Service doesn't come after me too!

Buffalo Nickel 1937-S Key chain device, about 30mm in diameter

roadrunner

The 1944 key chain Washington $20 is surely more interesting than a real circ 1944 quarter.

CaptHenway

Interesting novelty keychain.

ColonelJessup

@OPA said:

@BigA said:
It's a privately manufactured piece of jewelry.

And not a very artistic nor attractive one.

Somehow resonates with a few Indian Peace Medals I've seen. Mostly because there's an authentic hole in hit, I suppose.
Lacks the nuances of the Houdin bust and its other progeny.
Does the chain have the same metallic composition as the medal?

Are there exonumismatic memorabilia collectors in Sweden who value the sentiments expressed via coinage designs?

Aggressive eagles from our very first day of minting is a US signifier.

$20 gold pieces hollowed out and filled with superbly designed timepieces.
Glassware with bas-relief coinage designs.
Trompe d'oeil paintings of coins and currency
Belts, earrings and other jewelry using coins, especially genuine small gold coins.

Too many Forum members have a bizarre and likely unhealthy interest in clear acrylic toilet seats with genuine coins imbedded. Collecting sensibilities in this niche include series date collectors, variety specialists and type collectors.

The curious story of proof one dollar gold coins minted, far beyond any collector need, especially for Members of our Congress from 1882-1889. Urban legend is that the politicians used them to pay for the occasional whorehouse visit; some sense can be made of why holed examples of these dates, and no others, show up occasionally.

How about corruption at the Swedish Mint? Many of our most treasured rarities involved payoffs to Mint officials to produce limited editions of coins that never existed.

Our Forum member Regulated recently sold $10,000,000 in old gold coins found in 5 tin cans by hikers a year or two before that.

Many here are concerned with the foreseeable consequences of a "cashless" economy. While population and geographic scales are different, hard metal vs. fiat/electronic currency is easily imagined as a mutual topic I'd personally like to hear more about from the perspective of a collector from your country.

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