Test your powers

Test your powers of obsevation and see if you can identify this coin. If no one gets it right away I'll leave a clue every couple of days.

 

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I haven't a clue.
Appears to be silver.
The curved number before the "4" appears to be a "9".
But there's denticles!!!
To the best of my knowledge no US coins had denticles in 1947.
So not US or that's not a "9".

 

1847 Seated Half???

 

Can't be it , it's something foreign I have been looking around for some time now

 

darnit ths is killing me

 

Without looking at any references, my guess is 1847 half dime or dime -- leaning towards the former.

 

Clue No.1

This is a U.S. coin design.

 

1847 half cent

 

1847 Seated Dollar

 

The 7 looks to my eye to be the same font/punch used in the late 1840's, and I think we've hit on all the silver types of that year.

Hmmm....

Some kind of pattern?

Seated quarter?

Hmmm....

 

Nope, nope, nope and nope.

 

jello guessed seated half, so I will say seated quarter to make all of the 1847 seated coins guessed

 

Cent, Gold?

 

what commems happened in 1947?

 

OK, here's what's been eating at me this morning....

The 4 is all wrong for the 1847 timeframe -- on all the regular-issue coins of that year the 4 has a crosslet on the right side of the 4, yet this coin doesn't have that same type of 4.

For example, compare the above coin to the following large cent:



And all the regular issues from 1847 share this "crosslet" 4, so therefore the OP's coin can't be a regular-issue 1847.

Hmmm.....

 

1847 seated Dime

Only other coin not listed is the Dime

 

it is not an 1847 coin. That is a 9 to the left, not an 8

 

The 1847 Hawaii one cent (Hapa Hanele) has the same style 4 as the OPs coin but that is all.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

1947 Walking Liberty???

 

I know!!!
It's a Chinese fake/counterfeit/copy/replica.

Of what?
Oh, well. If you're going to get tough on me, I quit!