Hello everyone, went to a pawn shop yesterday and found this coin and some others, I just thought this Indian Head coin was interesting because of it's size. I had no idea they made coins like this and just wanted to share. Thanks
If it's actually 1 Troy Ounce it is considered Bullion They come in many different styles and weights. Just remember this.. All US Coins, legal tender coins that is, state the word LIBERTY, E PLURIBUS UNUM, IGWT and the year
Thank you. Question for you...How can one tell if it is a 1 Troy Ounce? I just assumed it was because it says so. Are there other ways to tell otherwise?
You can weigh it. 31.1 grams. The internet says this is probably 1 ounce of silver. https://www.goldenstatemint.com/
I believe the only thing that is on all legal tender US coins is the date (which you mentioned) and United States of America. (And there are transitional patterns in 1860 I believe that don't have United States of America, but those are patterns not coins.) There are at least four coins that don't have LIBERTY on them (FE cent, two cent, trime, and shield nickel. And if you insist on the WORD liberty, all of the President dollars.) E Pluribus Unum is not on half cents, large cents, FE cents, Indian heads, two cent, three cent pieces, Shield nickels and several others. IGWT doesn't appear on anything before 1866 and on several coins since then. The last one it wasn't on was the buffalo nickel, even though at that time it HAD to appear by law. And there is no denomination on the half dimes before 1829, dimes before 1809, 1796 quarters, and most of the early gold coins before 1834.
I assume you are including that in the No denomination category, but it does have the V as the trime and nickel three cent have III's but not the word Cent. I didn't include it because it does have the V. The others I mentioned have no indication of denomination.
Sorry yes, to clarify I meant because there is no indication of cents/dollar. I didn't know that there were coins without any indication I thought you meant they only had a number.
OP probably wasn't aware of the Mint's 2001 commem program: http://moderncommemoratives.com/2001-american-buffalo-silver-dollar/ That's a full size silver dollar commem. I have a graded MS version. In case the OP was wondering, the design comes from the Buffalo nickel which was minted in the US in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco from 1913 to 1938. This info may be stating the obvious but didn't sound like OP knew about them.
To my knowledge this is just a piece of bullion. The bottom staes 1oz .999 fine silver. It has no denomination or other markings indicating being minted especially a date.
Right. I was referring to the link i posted. Not the ops pics. I was making him aware of whats out there.
