Repousee Coins (aka Push Outs or Pop Outs)

I mentioned earlier that I wrote an article on penny exonumia and am also working on putting together an exhibit for the Summer ANA show in Chicago. Included in my penny exonumia collection are these cool Repousse Indian cents (aka push outs or pop outs). Here is a little information I found about these fun pieces:

These interesting pieces of exonumia are also known as “Pushed Up,” “3-D,” or “Repousse” coins. Many varieties exist, including Miss Liberty, Presidents, with Lincoln being the most common, as well as animals, Indians, political, religious, fraternal clubs, foreign themes, etc. Many pop-outs were made into jewelry, such as fobs, rings, pins, brooches, pendants, cuff links, etc. A book on pop out coins called “Pop Out Repousse Coins – a Numismatic Mystery” was published in 2011 by Robert (Stumpy) Stump, who passed away a few days after the book was sent to print.

I posted photos of these two Indian repousse's I took with my iPhone in my Baltimore show report, but here are Todd's wonderful photos of these two pieces I acquired at the Baltimore show!






They will go nicely with the Roosevelt push out that I already had in my collection.




Feel free to post any repousse coins you may have!!!

 

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Fun stuff. Nice ones Charmy.

 

Found this one some years back....

 

Believe it or not I think this is art. Just think, and I really mean this if you can push out some nice indian head gold indian coins. I would buy one or do one for my wifey to wear with pride.

Is there a trick to do this? Pm me if you do it or know who does it. G

 

I see these sometimes and think they are very nice.
Other times it's like "eh"
The ones in this post are the nice ones

 

I will take pics and post my 7 pop outs tomorrow. I really like them but as you see on Ebay they have sky rocketed in price.

 

I really like the FDR 1. great condition too. you can see the glasses cool.

 

ok. here are my 7 "POP OUT" coins. I apologized for the poor photograph. my girlfriends camera is limited.

1930 George Washington

 

Od the four you've posted, I would purchase all but that Indian. I hage to state that I just do not care for what was done to the coin. Had the art been less of a poor duplicate, perhaps, but certainly not what they ended up with.

 

1929 indian chief

 

1967 Abraham Lincoln

 

1912 dime. my personal favorite.

 

1954 quarter. it's nice too.

 

1997 John F. Kennedy


I eventually want to get a 1964 silver 1 of these.

 

1976 Liberty Bell

I will add the reverse tomorrow. I think the franklin collectors would want this for the "FULL BELL LINE" collections lol :yes:I have a balloon images of those collectors cringing lol

 

I agree and have always said the same about IKE dollars.

 

I had my eye on this one on eBay, but mainly because of my dismay at what had been done to an at-least-XF Barber half:

1909 BARBER HALF DOLLAR SILVER COIN PUNCHED / PUSHED OUT REPOUSSE 3D POP ART