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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 379496, member: 4703&quot;]In the first place they are tokens, not coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were privately issued as part of a commercially created series&nbsp; honoring US presidents (before Congress and the Mint teamed up to do the same with dollar coins.)&nbsp; If that mark above Jefferson&#039;s left shoulder and Lincoln&#039;s right shoulder is an &quot;F&quot;, they may be Franklin Mint products.&nbsp; Also, both Shell Oil and the Readers Digest are among the companies which have issued historic series of tokens from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style seems to match this Chester Arthur medal discussed and illustrated at <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.coinsite.com/content/cdanswers/cdimages/chesterarthur-1.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.coinsite.com/content/cdanswers/cdarchive33.asp&amp;h=420&amp;w=320&amp;sz=37&amp;hl=en&amp;start=18&amp;sig2=VUxU7wD3Uw3KjPb8nKLo8g&amp;tbnid=9cc8AfO3paOe0M:&amp;tbnh=125&amp;tbnw=95&amp;ei=Wr9ASOXmFovAiAHcyPDBAw&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpresidential%2Bmedals%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.coinsite.com/content/cdanswers/cdimages/chesterarthur-1.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.coinsite.com/content/cdanswers/cdarchive33.asp&amp;h=420&amp;w=320&amp;sz=37&amp;hl=en&amp;start=18&amp;sig2=VUxU7wD3Uw3KjPb8nKLo8g&amp;tbnid=9cc8AfO3paOe0M:&amp;tbnh=125&amp;tbnw=95&amp;ei=Wr9ASOXmFovAiAHcyPDBAw&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpresidential%2Bmedals%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG" rel="nofollow">this website</a>, and may be from the same series, albeit in a different metal.<img src="http://www.coinsite.com/content/cdanswers/cdimages/chesterarthur-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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