Re: 1847 Lady Liberty 1 cent
yup - makes it quite suspicious.
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Versions of the Penny
After Ben Franklin’s minted version the most notable US Penny was the indian cent. The 100% copper indian cent, produced from around 1859 to about 1864 is fabled to be designed as the result of genuine indian assistance. You see an indian chief supposedly loaned his chieftain headdress to the model for the coin’s image that was the daughter of the designer, to wear for the engraving. From 1864 to 1909 there was another change in that the coins went from 100% copper indian cents to 5% zinc and 95% copper. This change was right after the civil war. The first lincoln cent like what we have today appeared in 1909. If you have a 1909 penny hold on to it! More pennies have been pressed than any other coin in the US. Throughout WW2 pennies were steel covered in zinc to allow the use of copper in wartime for military purposes. There have been adoptions of a new penny at the 100th and 150th birthday’s of Abraham Lincoln in honor of him. In 1959 this produced the penny with the Lincoln memorial on the back. Of course if the indian cent and first Lincoln penny of 1909 could be had these would be a prize. The more knowably collectible versions and years are listed here."