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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1205698, member: 19122&quot;]My guess is that someone in 1894 got that old cent and marked the event by marking the coin. From what I have read the demise of the large cents and the advent of the flying eagles started the hobby of collecting coins in the United States. </p><p><br /></p><p>So by 1894 most people know that those old cents are worth something more than face value, a guy happens across a common 1830&#039;s era cent that carries no premium, he is told that it is not worth any more than an 1894 cent, so instead of letting the dealer have it for face he takes it home stamps 1894 into it and puts it away until years later one of his heirs finds it and sells it for a few dollars to a modern dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s one way it might have happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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