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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;butterflybaby08, post: 1560634, member: 41756&quot;]Hi. I&#039;m a fairly new coin collector. I work at McDonalds and I get most of my coins by buying out cool ones that i get thru the drive thru. My ex got me started about a year ago, because he was interested in wheat pennies and bi centennials quarters. I have about 986 coins, consisting of old, odd, and foreign coins, mainly wheats and bicentennials. I have a question about a coin I&#039;ve come across. It&#039;s the pride and joy of my collection. It&#039;s a coin from 1863, about the size (maybe a LITTLE bit smaller) and color of a penny. On the back is some sort of wreath around the edge with a blank space in the middle (the blank space is very scratched up and it&#039;s all very worn down so it may not have always been blank). On the front the edge has a ring of small dots close together, then a ring inside that of stars further spaced apart. Inside of that ring is a face of what appears to be a woman with a hairdo that flows down the back of her head and is somewhat gathered at the top. Below her head, and interrupting the ring of stars, is &quot;1863&quot;. Again the coin is fairly worn so I can&#039;t tell much about the woman (?) other than the faint outline, some faint lines of hair, and what appear to be her chin, nose, and eye. I originally believed this to be italian because at first glance the figure on the back looked similar to the figure on the back of an italian nickel I had but they actually are not the same. I&#039;ve tried doing some online research and the closest thing I can find makes me think it MIGHT be some sort of civil war era coin or commerative thing. (Sorry I can&#039;t be more descriptive) But again nothing I&#039;ve seen online looks that similar to it, aside from the wreath. Can anybody help me out? I catalog on excel every coin I have and it&#039;s very irritating to not be sure where this is from. Plus I&#039;d love to know some history behind it. Also, could any one give me tips on how to properly store my coins? I don&#039;t have a lot of money to spend or even knowledge of how to go about it so as of right now they are in 2 ziplock baggies (sorry I&#039;m sure your shuddering but it&#039;s the best I have on hand to keep them from getting lost). Thanks in advance for all your help!</p><p>Katie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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