Penny help

[fjudd94]

I found this yesterday while detecting an old oil camp here in Bradford. I tried to see if it was just a mark paper or something but it is part of the metal. What could this be. The writting was on it when I found it.

 

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[nhbenz]

What does it say? It loooks like: WI ELMER AFFIX PENNY ?

 

[fjudd94]

The words are cut off. I can make out affix, each, and penny. The rest are not there.

 

[Shortround]

Would help if the whole image was there, but maybe this will help a bit:

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks like the penny was glued to something. With Elmer's Cement, I would guess. Balance weight for a toy glider.

We used to get all kinds of junk mail with coins inside to coax you into opening them.

That, or it was from a REALLY bad idea of a coin collecting album.

 

[PBK]

I agree: some sort of instructions for a penny to be affixed to another object with Elmer's glue.

When the coin was later peeled off, the residual glue retained some of the ink of the text.

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[fjudd94]

Thank you all for the help it is appreciated.

 

[nhbenz]

Maybe it was a souvenir from this guy's place: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/us/07penny.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Montana Jim]

Maybe it was a souvenir from this guy's place: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/us/07penny.html?pagewanted=all

Holy Moly! LOL... Think anyone has been there lookin for key dates?

 

[TreasureTales]

Somebody left them a 5 gallon bucket of pennies! I can only imagine how much fun that was to go through. I wonder if they ever had any really valuable ones - key dates as MJ said. A few key date pennies could buy a whole bunch of common date pennies. Hmmmm, wonder if that's how they got so many.

I've seen the Silver Dollar Bar at the Wort Hotel in Jackson Hole, WY, but never the penny saloon in my own home state. Road Trip!!