Other Victory Encased

In my quest (cue Man of la Mancha - I, Don Quixote) I have collected numerous Victory related encased coins. Above is an image of a typical 1945 victory obverse. Next to it is an encased for the 1946 Iowa State Fair. The scrolls on the State Fair encased look very close to the scrolls on the typical Victory encased. It is also interesting to note that the reverse of the Iowa encased is: SARGENT & CO. FEEDS. It is no coincidence that there is a 1945 Victory encased for SARGENT & CO. FEEDS. The edge is also missing the denticles that are found on the typical 1945 Victory encased.

The above 1946 Victory encased is identical to the type 1 obverse and the reverse is typical. The difference is the date of the coin. This has a 1946 coin. For all intents and purposes it appears to be as made not replaced. In assisting Bryan Ryker in transcribing the Osborne Coin Company work orders it became clear to me that Osborne used whatever coins they had on hand when encasing cents. There were orders that specified the date, but they were the exception, not the rule. The plain fact is that we do not know what year the Victory encased were made, only that they continued a 1945 cent. That is until several 1946 cents showed up in Victory encased.

The next encased with Victory on it is this 1941 D encased cent.

This store obviously wanted to capitalize on winning WWII. Although this has a 1941 D cent, it probably was made in 1942. One of the interesting things about this encased cent is that it's diameter is larger than the typical encased. The Victory encased are 40MM in diameter. The Victory Clothes encased is 43MM in diameter. It fills a 2 x 2 where the typical encased cent is 40MM and leaves space around the encasement when placed in a 2 x 2.

The next image is of an encased 1946 cent. The piece was to commemorate the Shrine Victory Convention