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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Underhill, post: 7884690, member: 124097&quot;]Hello everyone.&nbsp; This is my first post here but I have a feeling there&#039;ll be many more.&nbsp; I have no experience at all with coin collecting but I&#039;m cleaning out my father&#039;s house and, apparently, my grandmother was a bit of a collector.&nbsp; I&#039;m just starting to sort through the many jars and sacks of old and really interesting coins she stored away long ago.&nbsp; I&#039;ve just been taking a few coins at a time and Googling them to get a rough idea of what the heck is a half-dime, for example, or a three-cent-nickel, or a war-token coin; fascinating... </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, today&#039;s question is about a coin I just found that I can&#039;t seem to identify by Googling.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure someone here will be able to quickly solve my mystery.&nbsp; From the flying eagle on one side and the words &quot;one cent&quot; on the other it seems obvious that it&#039;s a &quot;flying eagle cent&quot;.&nbsp; My problem though is that, from all I can find these were only made from 1856 to 1858.&nbsp; The one I have seems to clearly be dated 1853.&nbsp; Can someone help me figure out what this coin is?&nbsp; I&#039;m sure it&#039;s probably something common that I just don&#039;t know how to look up.&nbsp; </p><p>I don&#039;t have a great macro-camera but I took a photo of the date through my loupe and photos of each side with my phone.&nbsp; </p><p>Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, </p><p>John&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1359962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1359963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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