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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cincimatti, post: 24720542, member: 16004&quot;]I found my way to this thread to try to figure out why there are so many older cents with x&#039;s carved into the reverse. Just got a nice set of Lincoln cents and the gorgeous 1931-D, defaced by such means. Also one of my earliest eBay encounters 18 years ago was a 1917-D with the same issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read now that there is an old superstition that dictates you should always include a penny when gifting a knife. In doing so, you counter the risk of severing the relationship with the luck associated with a penny. The recipient then gives the coin back to the gift giver as a symbolic purchase, so the knife isn&#039;t an outright gift per se. Have yet to find a connection with marking the coin in the process, but it seems like a logical step in the ritual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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