A JANUS COPPER BUTTON?
The E-Sylum (6/9/2024)
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A JANUS COPPER BUTTON?
Here's another enigmatic piece.-Editor
Website visitor Tim Heller writes:
"I stumbled across the article you wrote about the Janus Copper. I was recently metal detecting and found what appears to be one of these coins, however it was made into a button. If you could help in any way to help me see if this could be real?"
It does look like this was made as (or made into) a button.The earlier E-Sylum article is linked below. Here is it side-by-side with the earlier Heritage auction lot image.-Editor
Heritage cataloguer Dave Stone writes:
"This is interesting. Unfortunately, I don't have much to contribute about the new "button" piece. I never saw or heard of anything like it. The obverse doesn't look quite the same as the Janus Copper, although they are certainly similar. The date seems to be positioned higher on the "button" and the D in GODDESS is much lower than the E. Is the "button" struck in copper? Hard to tell from the picture."
What do people make of this? Is such a button known? Pete Smith located this "nickel size" fantasy on eBay. -Editor
eBay lot images
Heritage lot images
To read the complete lot description, see:
STATE of MASS. 1776 GODDESS OF LIBERTY FANSY ISSUE TOKEN 3 FACES(https://www.ebay.com/itm/204820072838)
THE 1776 JANUS COPPER(https://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n14a12.html)
THE BUTTON MUSEUM(https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n16a30.html)
