Little Indian Cent Sunday! Post yours as well....

Hello everyone! It's "Little Indian Cent Sunday!". Post yours as well. All coins of the "Indigenous People".
Tokens and Medals welcome!
Enjoy your blessed Day!

 

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FYI, The Indian Head Cent doesn't really depict a real Native American

You can read the story here - Indian Head cent - Wikipedia

Quote "Regardless of who posed for Longacre, the facial features of the "Indian" are essentially Caucasian, meaning that a Caucasian woman wears the headdress of a Native American man. Longacre had, in 1854, designed the three-dollar piece with a female with similar features (also supposedly based on the museum sculpture) but a more fanciful headdress, and adapted that design for the gold dollar. Officials were aware of this artistic license at the time of issue; Snowden, in his November 1858 letter to Cobb, characterizes the two earlier coins as "the artists at the Mint evidently not realizing the absurd incongruity of placing this most masculine attribute of the warrior brave on the head of a woman". Longacre would not be the last to juxtapose the features of a White woman with an Indian headdress reserved for men; Augustus Saint-Gaudens, for the Indian Head eagle (1907), produced a similar design. Later issues depict more accurate Indians, including Bela Lyon Pratt's Indian Head gold pieces (1908), the Buffalo nickel (1913) by James Earle Fraser, who worked from Native American models, and the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar (1926), designed by Fraser and his wife Laura." Closed quote

Here are 2 of my IHC Mint Errors -

 

I grew up with quite a few Indian friends. They too would tell you a pretty white woman is better to look at than most old indian dudes. James

 

How timely. Yesterday the mailman braved a blizzard to deliver me my newest coin. A Proof Indian cent. Indians in worn condition were a big part of my early collection but I felt like i had never seen one before when i saw a proof. James

 

The Odd Fellows Civil War token.



"OUR CENT" This is a Civil War token. The idea was to get someone to accept it as a cent on a quick glance. Note that "ONE CENT" and "OUR CENT" have the same initials and number of letters per line. I have never seen this token in nice condition. This is rated as an R-5, 76 to 200 known. Not the rarest, but not the easiest the find.

 

Okay, here's some!

 

The 1894 over 94 over date. It’s my newest Indian Head Cent variety.

 

OIL OF ICE counter mark. I have 2 of the 3 coins.

 

The third picture shows the die rotation.

 

My most recent and a couple of others.