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Message:: [QUOTE="Mikjo0, post: 90034, member: 3565"]OK,I've already posted a photo of this "coin/token" and several people responded but I found this article on Lewis Feuchtwanger that goes into a bit more detail."FEUCHTWANGER, Lewis, chemist, born in Furth, Bavaria, 11 January 1805; died in New York City, 25 June 1876. He was the son of a mineralogist, and inherited a taste for natural science, to which he devoted special attention at the University of Jena. After receiving his doctor's degree there in 1827, he came to the United States in 1829, and settled in New York, where he opened the first German pharmacy, and also practiced medicine, being particularly active during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Subsequently he devoted his entire attention to chemistry and mineralogy, and became engaged in the manufacture and sale of rare chemicals. He introduced in 1829 the alloy called German silver, and was the first to call the attention of the U. S. government to the availability and desirability of nickel for small coins. In 1837 he issued, by permission of the U. S. government, a large quantity of one-cent pieces in nickel, and in 1864 he had struck off a number of three-cent pieces in the same metal, but they were not put into circulation." Just as an aside,the red holder I have this in is for cents,which shows that Feuchtwanger was the originator of the small cent coin 20 years before the first flying eagles were minted.[/QUOTE]