🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Coin? Coin maker? Counterfeit?

[Underwonder]

I found this at an 1850s home. I thought it was an old copper penny, but everything is reversed and it is thin and sticks weakly to a magnet. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

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[KSDirtfisher77]

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I found this at an 1850s home. I thought it was an old copper penny, but everything is reversed and it is thin and sticks weakly to a magnet. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Congrats on the wild coin find!!! I'm curious to hear on that find.

 

[cudamark]

Looks like a large cent was hammered against your metal find.

 

[Bramblefind]

Neat! I think these are sometimes called "sandwich coins." Like Cudamark said a 180- large cent was pressed into (possibly) a Connecticut copper (?) and left an imprint. The host could be another coin with the Britannia or Liberty reverse figure.

 

[Underwonder]

Neat! I think these are sometimes called "sandwich coins." Like Cudamark said a 180- large cent was pressed into (possibly) a Connecticut copper (?) and left an imprint. The host could be another coin with the Britannia or Liberty reverse figure.

Thank you. Interesting. So what might have been the reason for making a “sandwich coin”?

 

[Bramblefind]

Thank you. Interesting. So what might have been the reason for making a “sandwich coin”?

I think mostly they were made just because it was a fun thing to do.

 

[Bramblefind]

I think mostly they were made just because it was a fun thing to do.

Thinking more about it though -- it could have been a way to have the older coin better accepted in commerce once the large cents came into prominence.

 

[villagenut]

Thank you. Interesting. So what might have been the reason for making a “sandwich coin”?

.....probably someone wanted a "change" in diet....