very unusual wheaty in the park today

[diamondjim]

This is one of those cases where I didn't think I had found anything all THAT interesting until I got home. Sure, there was the one wheat with the bullet dent, I've seen a few of those over the years. Just about to toss it in the wheaty jar, I noticed something odd on the face...it wasn't a bullet dent, but a mason counter stamp!

Anyone else ever seen one of these? Wonder what was going, who was producing these and why. Coin date is just 1947, so we're not talking lost relic of the knights templar here, just an unexpected location to dig something like this.

That park was only created in the 1960's, prior to that it was farm land or woods, used often for hunting in the 1940's.

 

[Mac232]

Good eye , a keeper for sure

Mac

 

[Moonshadow]

Wow....that is odd! Maybe someone here can help. Very cool conversation piece though! WTG!

HH,
Moon

 

[CRUSADER]

I've seen these before on here. The wheatie date is significant but can't remember the reason, maybe when they joined the lodge

 

[creeper71]

Maybe Neil (oddcoins) might know something about the penny..if he don't he probly knows someone that does...

 

[spartacus53]

That is a gret find, butI guess we will never know the true origin, or reason for the stamp.

 

[lostcauses]

It is a masonic penny. It was counter stamped after minting. They do show up from time to time. Easier and cheaper for a small group to use this method instead of having tokens (Masonic Penney) minted

 

[lostcauses]

http://askaboutcoins.com/tag/masonic-penny/

 

[diamondjim]

very cool! thanks for the research on this one.

never know what will pop out next!

 

[briankb70]

interesting find

 

[Nate in Ohio]

Very cool find. I could be wrong but it doesn't look like it was stamped; it looks like a raised portion. Interesting.

 

[Tank69]

very cool

 

[diamondjim]

Very cool find. I could be wrong but it doesn't look like it was stamped; it looks like a raised portion. Interesting.

you are not wrong...it's stamped from behind, beaten into die, the dent in the back is what I mistook for a bullet dent.

 

[Goes4ever]

very cool find, I found one this spring, here is mine

 

[mikesand]

very cool
HH
mike

 

[allen]

maybe carried for a good luck charm ?