My First US non-US Coin

[N.J.THer]

Yesterday at lunch I hit my favorite park for a short hunt. It is getting too hot to do this for too much long at lunch time...starting to sweat and that is not good for work.

I found the usual clad, four wheats (3 from the teens) and a 1902 Indian Head cent.

I was about to throw my clad into the clad coffee can when I noticed one of the quarters I dug did not look the same as the others. It was a little thinner so I started cleaning it up. The first side I cleaned had a man squatting by what looks like a volcanoe and the words One Centavos. Now I'm thinking foreign coin so I start cleaning up the other side and there is an eagle that has its wings spread over a shield and it reads The Unitied States of America. Now I'm confused so I pull out the red book and in the back find out that it is a American occupation coin from the Philippines. The date is hard to read but I think it is a 1903.

Not worth much but it was something different and was fun to research. I was able to find a coin that I had never seen before so that was cool. I will try to post a picture at a later time since I don't have my camera with me. (sorry)

NJ

 

[allen]

that sounds like a neat coin...can you show us a pic ?

 

[N.J.THer]

that sounds like a neat coin...can you show us a pic ?

I'll post a picture this weekend.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats on the Non US coin. Here is some info on the Philippine US coins: http://www.coinsite.com/content/articles/PhilippinesMinor.asp

 

[N.J.THer]

Congrats on the Non US coin. Here is some info on the Philippine US coins: http://www.coinsite.com/content/articles/PhilippinesMinor.asp

Thanks for the link. I love the history behind the coin. The fact that one side has the American influence and the other is Spanish makes for a unique coin. I wish I would have found a silver denomination since it would have held up in the ground a little better but I'll take it.

NJ