Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Marked Cent Reappears. [ARTICLE]

Marked Cent Reappears.

Ross Gillespie, a well known silversmith, was displaying with great pride an ordinary copper cent, one of the cartwheel variety, to his friends last night, says the Philadelphia Record. The.coin bore the date of 1861, the year Mr. Gillespie began his apprenticeship. On the reverse side was stamped a wreath, in the center of which were Mr. Gillespie’s initials, “R. A. G.” The design was placed upon the coin thirty-four years ago by the then young man, who turned it loose in the world of commerce with a remark to his friends that he expected ijome day to see it come back to him again. Like the bad penny it was, it did turn up, but in a rather unexpected manner. Passing up Tenth street one day Mr. Gillespie paused to look* at the display in the show window of a numismatist. One moldy-looking copper cent attracted his attention, and a close inspection revealed the coin that had been marked by him years ago. It took twenty-five cents to purchase the coin, but now it is a priceless charm, dangling from the gold watch chain of its proud owner.