Coin ID Help Please!

[asmerri]

Found this coin about 8" down yesterday. It is very thin, worn and un recognizable (to me). The only thing I can see is the bust of a right facing man. What do you think, just a flattened Lincoln The bust looks different than Lincoln to me...

 

[asmerri]

Photos may help

 

[recondigger]

Looks like a hammer was taken to Lincoln

Dig until your arm falls off

 

[jewelerguy]

I've been looking on the net without and luck. my opinion is that it is an early campaign token

 

[asmerri]

I've been looking on the net without and luck. my opinion is that it is an early campaign token

That would be cool! Do you agree that the bust looks a little different than a Lincoln penny?

 

[BosnMate]

The bust appears to be different to me. Note the biggest difference to me is the shoulders end sharply on the found token, and they continue through on the penny. I see other slight differences also. That said, I have no idea what you found other than perhaps a foreign coin.

 

[jewelerguy]

That would be cool! Do you agree that the bust looks a little different than a Lincoln penny?

yes, different for sure. possible it is a foreign coin, but it I lean more towards early campaign token. and by that, I mean Abe Lincoln or earlier like Andrew Jackson or Henry Clay. Possibly someone who ran against them. I did searches of early campaign tokens and hard times tokens and had no luck finding a match. Hopefully someone here can ID it for you.

 

[asmerri]

yes, different for sure. possible it is a foreign coin, but it I lean more towards early campaign token. and by that, I mean Abe Lincoln or earlier like Andrew Jackson or Henry Clay. Possibly someone who ran against them. I did searches of early campaign buttons and hard times tokens and had no luck finding a match. Hopefully someone here can ID it for you.

Thank you very much for your research! I hope an ID can be made. I have never found a campaign token.

 

[recondigger]

I see a D I think in the upper left corner Dig until your arm falls off

 

[Helix]

I can't really tell but i'm looking at how thin it is compared to how thick the lincoln is. Looks to me if someone flattened a lincoln that thin it would be almost the size of a quarter.

 

[asmerri]

I can't really tell but i'm looking at how thin it is compared to how thick the lincoln is. Looks to me if someone flattened a lincoln that thin it would be almost the size of a quarter.

Agreed. And I don't think it would keep a perfectly circular shape.

 

[cudamark]

The head looks a little like Edward VII but the diameter doesn't match anything I can recognize.