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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1447071, member: 66&quot;]These are sometimes known as shell cents.&nbsp; The shell was made using an embossing die with the design being impressed from the inside creating the raised image on the outside.&nbsp; Then a cent would be placed in the shell and them rotated in a set of rollers that crimped the edge of the shell around the edge of the cent to hold it in.&nbsp; This created an inexpensive souvenir.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know where the SS morro pieces were sold but it was probabl on the Jersy Shore to sightseers that came out to see the wreck.&nbsp; The Hauptmann trial pieces were sold to the crowds outside the courthouse where the trial was being held.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know who made them.&nbsp; I learned about them in an article in Coins magazine on the Lindbergh kidnapping and trial back in the early 70&#039;s.&nbsp; The article focused more on the gold certificates and how they related to the trial, but it did mention the trial shell cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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