Coin and Paper Money Collecting/REGUARDING A PENNIE

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Expert: - 5/11/2006


Question
I HAVE A PENNIE DATED 1959 ( D ), INCASED IN PLASTIC, BUT IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE COPPER.  IT LOOKS LIKE SILVER.  CAN YOU HELP ME TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT IT ?

Answer
Sorry, Rhonda, can't really picture this.  I don't know of any silver looking cent that was encased in plastic.  Could be a homemade job.  Try going to www.ebay.com and doing searches like: "encased plastic cent" "encased silver cent" "encased coin" and other variations and see what comes up and compare to what you have.  You may also try the same thing on www.google.com, although there you'll get a ton of dealer websites.  

Hope this helped, Jim Lawniczak

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Jim Lawniczak

Expertise

I will answer your questions about encased coins (lucky pennies), which are advertising and event tokens with coins, unually cents, struck with the token.

Experience

Long time collector of encased coins and author of several articles on encased coins.

Organizations
TAMS, ECI (Encased Collectors International)

Publications
TAMS -- several articles on encased coins, in particular the encased coins of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition
Casement -- many articles on encased coins

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