My uncle just gave me a bunch of old coins for my birthday and I started doing research only to find nothing on this silver penny coins. I don't have a camera but was able to get a picture of them on amazon but no price was listed. My penny is from 1905 and is in ok quality.
Awesome uncle!.... Well, there is a neat story behind the gold plated "racketeer nickel". I can bore you with that another time if you want. It is a gold plated first year issue V-nickel. Now over the years many more have been gold plated for souvenir pieces like yours. No great inherent value but it represents a cool story relating to our nations money and an error the US mint quickly corrected.... The Indian cent too is plated. Though I could not tell you the significance of that. Indian cents were of copper composition.
If you go looking for Racketeer Nickels, just remember that most of the stories are bunk. There's no contemporaneous evidence for 'ole Josh. It's also impossible to tell one that was plated in 1883, 1890 or 2018 apart. http://www.numismaticnews.net/buzz/much-loved-story-helps-hype-nickel-hoard https://www.coinworld.com/voices/gerald-tebben/2017/03/1_20_of_a_dollar_the.html https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/searchwithterms?searchterm=josh tatum esp. https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/7423
And they were 1883 5 cents which did not have the word or sign for cent on it, so it might fool some one.
Interesting image, a racketeer 1913 V nickel. Bot the coin in that set were plated long after they left the mint.
Some of the early Indian Head cents have a whiter appearance before they changed the composition. No silver pennies.
Right... 1859-1864 coins were 88% copper, 12% nickel Mid-year 1864 and later were 95% copper, 5% tin and zinc EDIT: Corrected conjunction. Thanks Conder
