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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1445608, member: 31533&quot;]I would say that the first one, the Libertad, was produced as a slug prior to about WWII, to be used in place of a quarter in a machine. If it had the weight and feel (and maybe even made of silver, I don&#039;t know) of a quarter, then that may have been it&#039;s purpose. By placing the Libertad instead of Liberty at the reverse top, and simplifying the Standing Liberty design, it could be looked on as a &quot;token&quot; and not a coin. I did a quick search, and evidently laws against tokens and slugs being used in place of real money in coin operated machines had not been stringent enough to stop the practice. Any one looking at someone placing it in a machine at a distance would not likely be able to tell it wasn&#039;t actually a real quarter. And placing the year 1914 on the obverse, when those weren&#039;t minted yet by the US would further suggest it was in fact a slug struck later privately.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second, I would guess might be a token or medallion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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