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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2825590, member: 10461&quot;]It&#039;s an 1864-1909 Indian cent, or would be, if it was the right coppery color.&nbsp; But what&#039;s in those pictures looks like a pot metal <i>casting</i> of an Indian cent - it&#039;s too silvery colored.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell if that&#039;s the photos or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be a charm cast out of a pewter-like metal (often called &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal" rel="nofollow">pot metal</a>&quot;), which was made to resemble an Indian head cent.&nbsp; During the 1950s there were a lot of these &quot;faux coins&quot; on charm bracelets.&nbsp; Sometimes they gold-plated actual coins, and sometimes they were just castings, like this appears to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which seems strange, because an Indian Head cent would&#039;ve been a very cheap and available coin at the time.&nbsp; Why go through the trouble to make a fake one?&nbsp; But they did, sometimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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