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I was cleaning out my car and found a piece of metal that resembles a coin. It's a bit worn, I can't make at some of the lettering. It's smaller than a dime and about half as thin. On one side it looks like there's a large C with stars around the outer edge and maybe a roman numeral 2 in the center. On the other side, United States...(can't make out the 3rd word) is written across the top, with the possible date of 1852, or 1952,on the bottom, and in the center it looks like a Jewish star with maybe flag strips in the middle.
Anne,
What a strange thing to find in a car!
What you've found is an 1852 silver 3-cent piece.
It originally looked like the one pictured here :
http://www.coinfacts.com/three_cents/three_cents_silver/1852_three_cents_silver....
In the excessively worn condition you describe, it's value is just a couple dollars.
I hope this helps,
Dan
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