The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 23, June 5, 2005, Article 18

MASONIC CHAPTER PENNIES

A visitor to my personal web site wrote: "I was visiting family
and I saw a coin that was about and inch and on one side said
one penny and had some drawings and on the other said Charles
Eginton Chapter No. 111 R.A.M. Beattyville Ky October 17,
1871. Could you tell me anything about it?" I wrote:

"This sounds like what collectors would call a "Masonic Chapter
Penny". Someone in the family belonged to the Masons and
this is a token given to members of that particular lodge.

The primary reference on the subject is a book by E. A. King
called "Masonic Chapter Pennies", published in 1930. It was
reprinted in 1982 and copies are available for sale on the
Internet (see bookfinder.com) It describes 10,000 varieties
with more than 500 illustrations."

Can anyone tell us if King's work has ever been brought up
to date or supplanted?

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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