Niagara Falls Souvenir Token October 13, 2026 ​For years, this piece sat tucked away in my grandfather’s desk: a 1901 Indian Head cent encased inside an aluminum “Good Luck” token from Niagara Falls. ​Known simply as an “encased cent,” it was part of a souvenir craze that swept the country in the early 1900s as aluminum suddenly became cheap to stamp. Vendors hawked them as talismans—flanked by horseshoes and four-leaf clovers—cashing in on turn-of-the-century tourist traffic with little thought beyond […]