Word: indianhead
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...Indianhead nickel...
...this week James Earle Fraser, 74, is being honored with the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letter* and with a big show. Most of the work that made him famous reflects his first childhood choice of subject. The best-known Fraser sculpture of all: the Indianhead nickel, with a buffalo on the reverse, that the U.S. Treasury issued in 1913. Until it was superseded in 1939 by the Jefferson nickel, U.S. mints stamped out more than a billion of them...
Cyrenaica, which is as worn down from changing hands as an Indianhead penny, was British again last week...
Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...homely example: "Mrs. Townsend and I ... meet our club dues liberally by the simple expedient of refusing to part with any pennies that come into our possession until 'dues day' and then turn in our collection of red money. Thus for this month more than 200 Indianhead coins have come into our possession...