Help For A Friend

I was talking with a friend who is a dealer (small time) and he asked me about a couple of coins as to what was going on...
What is this, small token like

Also could this be a retained strike through? It is raised.

Pictures are terrible, but not entering them in a contest...
I tried to crop...

 

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It looks like the M Die. I read about this a few years ago.

 

Is the top coin a Hebrew or Arabic coin?
The cent is a nice one and should grade pretty high.
The General

 

@Fred Weinberg @paddyman98 could use your expertise here...please

 

I looked at the IHC yesterday.. Only thing I can sat is that if that's a Strike Through then if what? It's weird!

 

Thanks Paddy, I took it out of the 2x2 and prodded it with a toothpick and it didn't move, I'm stumped by it. Don't know if @Pickin and Grinin was kidding about the "M die" or not.

 

When I first saw it, I thought it was a scratch, but it really is raised.

 

The top coin looks like an Arabic love token. The M, I'm just as stumped as anybody else.

 

Got to ask but is the “Arabic token” gold? Cool any way..

 

Wish it was, but think it is more brass.

 

I was being ornery. I don't see how this could have been done at the mint. My vote is altered.

 

The token for Wedding and New Year. It is a Persian (Nowruz) (New Year) token.
(مبارك باد) (mubarak bad) (be happy).

 

The M was cut using a box cutter knife.

 

It looks to be welded or glued to the surface of the coin. You can see a flow around the "M".
Or it was Zorro's little brother Morron, lol.

 

I don't think it came from the Milwaukee mint either.

 

The only thing coming from the Milwaukee mint is in liquid form. When I was a grad student in Milwaukee many years ago Old Milwaukee was my beer of choice since I could buy a case (returnable bottle) for $2. I can't stomach the stuff today.

 

Dave is correct about the cent being an altered coin withthe raised M being made by undercutting with a knife creating raised lines.

10 posts to go.

 

My girlfriend in college went to grad school in Milwaukee then married a local and stayed. I liked it when the Braves were in Milwaukee; one of my childhood heroes was Eddie Matthews.