Philly Newp: Rare Oval Pocket Mirror Indian Cent

[The Penny Lady]

I picked this up at the Philly ANA - I've never seen an oval pocket mirror before so i couldn't pass up buying this for my collection. Also, the Indian cent inside the pocket mirror is a really pretty high grade. I already have round Indian cent and Lincoln cent pocket mirrors, so this is a nice addition to my exonumia collection!

 

[jerseycat10]

That is a pretty Indian. Beautifully RB.

[mumu]

Looks DMPL

[jerseycat10]

Looks DMPL

 

[pianoman]

Wow Penny Lady,

That coin is in great condition what a novelty!

Sigh, wouldn't we all love to earn 3% at our local bank these days

Tom

 

[ldhair]

Very nice.

[BillJones]

Very Neat!

 

To put that $36.50 annual savings into perspective, in 1915, just a few years later, the average family income in the U.S. $687 per year. That means that a cash savings of $36.50 would have been 5.3% of a year's income, which is not chump change. Using today's $50,000 income as a baseline that would be $2,656 in today's dollars.

[Old Pueblo]

104 years of saving the 10 pennies per day,compounded at 3.0% would have approx $25870.05 today.

 

If you took one of the newly minted pennies from each mint and year, you would also have a very fine and complete set of Lincoln Gems,

worth, dare I say, "A Pretty Penny"!

 

 

 

I am getting started today!

 

 

OP

 

Please check My Math

[e1cnr]

You always show the coolest stuff

 

 

too bad the bank wasn't in California

[mkman123]

really neat!

[CoinPulsive PCM]

That is very cool! Both a collectible to coin collectors and to people who collect early american made advertisement items. Its also a nice piece of educational history to show what a penny was worth "back then" compared to 2012.

 

Very nice!

 

-Dave

[Kurtdog]

There's probably not an S on the reverse of that coin. Nah...

[johnny9434]

that is a very interesting piece ya got there charmy.. nice pickup

[rons]

Let's not forget that Cooperstown is also the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame:) Very cool piece Charmy.

[newprepper]

That has to be old.................3% interest

[ldhair]

Semi-annual interest.