Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — A Marked Penny Turns Up. [ARTICLE]

A Marked Penny Turns Up.

In 1858 C. I’. Bateman, then living in Minerva, Ky„ cut his initials on a 25cent piece ,an<l carried it for a pocketpiece for a year or two. Then he parted with it. Last week Capt. Monroe Bateman, of Columbia, Mo., a brother of C. P. Bateman, received the 25-cent piece in change from a neighbor living in that place. He is sure it is his brother’s old pocket piece, because he remembers when the letters were cut in the coin, atjd various peculiarities about their form and position.- "