Two Large Cents in Two Consecutive Hunts -- The Second LC (or is it??)

[Erik in NJ]

Dug this with capri_auto on our second hunt (first one was an 1830) - this one is 1849 which was an interesting year...This one is in pretty nice shape for our soil and while cleaning it I noticed the private counter strike...looks like it was hit three times to add a bisected triangle with the letters "RAM" in the lower section what looks like the number "265" in the upper section. Someone suggested they used such cents as Tool Tags, I though perhaps some sort of advertising. Definitely adds some colorful history to this great find for me.

Any ideas, thoughts, guesses???

[attachment 172520 LargeCent1849counterstruck001.jpg]

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Heck large cents were used for many things and may be on the right track in your thinking..Big and bulky and even back then only worth a penny...

 

[captn_se]

That's a very interesting Large cent, Erik!

The counter-markings sure do give it a lot more character.

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[stubbs1]

As usual Eric Nice job