What coin am I?

So i figured I would start a game for entertainment and to make me smarter on coins.

How it works.

I post a one line fact about a particular coin, you guess what coin it is. Once the answer is revealed then the person to get it right first posts a one line fact. And on it goes.

I will attempt to keep a tally of who gets the most correct. There is no prize

For the first one I will do an easy one.

First fact: The hat pictured in this coin symbolizes freedom of thought.

 

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"Mercury" dime.

 

Correct! Medoraman +1 :hail: Your turn to post a fact.

 

i was just about to put that down, refreshed it and what do ya know!

 

I will be nice and only refer to US coins.

This coin was the first coin in the US to include the metal nickel.

 

1865 three cent

 

The Feuchtwanger cent.

 

Are we including patterns? Or just circulating/proofs?

 

Wish I could, but it wasn't produced by the US government. I think I should make this only US mint products.

For JA, I would say circulating issues. Don't need a date, just type.

 

Miss Liberty has looked more dignified in other varieties of this small denomination series.

 

OK how about the Indian head cent?

 

Mr. Anthony, I don't think anyone has gotten the answer Medoraman's

 

flying eagle cent

 

+1 Victor :hail:, Medoraman had to go so he messaged me the answer. Your turn to post a fact!

 

Oops, sorry. Victor got it though: the FEC used a cu-ni alloy.

 

Heads it's me, tails, it's me.

 

Kind of hard to think of a good question. Don't want to make it too difficult, here goes:
What year is the second lowest mintage of the gold two and a half dollar Indian head coin?
Not the lowest mintage, but the second lowest.

 

Hint: The Indian head quarter eagle gold coin was minted from 1908 to 1929. None were made from 1916 through 1924.

 

Edit: I was wrong

 

Hint #2: Mintages are in the Redbook.