Sunday, April 15, 2007

Fish Scale Coin

Fish Scale Coin hexagram
The smallest coin ever made by the United States Mint was nicknamed "fish scale." The main design featured a six-pointed star behind a shield...Reverse: The Roman numeral III sits inside a large "C," meaning "3 cents."
[surrounded by stars some of which are six-pointed]

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I have one of these.