Punched / stamped coins

Here are a few pages from my punched/stamped coins collection.

Who else collects these?

I would love to trade with other collectors in this field of collecting "mutilated coins".

Oded

 

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I had one of those 1976 counterstamped cents and board when I was young.

 

Cool! Do you still have it? Most people don't have the stuff they used to have when they were kids.

Oh, the collections I had, and my tidy-crazy Mom threw away... Including Presidential campaign buttons, stickers and other memorabilia (especially Nixon-McGovern stuff). Oh well, so is life...

 

Probably somewhere. Actually, I am pretty sure I have quite a bit of this type of collectible in piles. I buy quite a few group lots, and these things pop up fairly frequently. Not my thing, but I could see how others like them.

 

When you say 'unlisted'


Where are they listed?

A reference book?

 

That's a great selection Oded. I have a Battleship as well as a revolver stamped Lincoln (I believe it's different than yours). I've heard these referred to as "capped" cents but I call them counterstamps. I'm interested in what reference you refer to as Frank is. Wouldn't mind having a copy myself.

Here's a few of mine.

Bruce

 

The reference is the Encyclopedia of Modern Elongateds, by Angelo Rosato (Rosato, Angelo A., Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated: A Complete and Authentic Description of All Modern Elongateds, 1960-1978. Angros Publishing, 1990).

See:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_the_Modern_Elongated.html?id=hn9QAAAACAAJ
and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/coinbooks/8325944901/

It's a HUGE catalog, and sold in the neighborhood of $150-$200.

Oded

 

Thanks Oded, but that's a little out of my price range. It's amazing how expensive some of these reference books are.

Bruce

 

I have a thread up, but these are mine. different states stamped in each, gold colored.

 

What thread do you have up?

 

Yes indeed, Bruce. These books are expensive, especially if you only have a very partial interest.

I may be able to scan or photocopy the pages referencing these punched coins, if you're interested. Might be a little tricky with such a huge book...

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/19...ed-on-them-identify-help.257686/#post-2054985 This is the thread i was referring to. These are the only punched/stamped coins I own.

 

Thanks for the link to that other thread I must have somehow missed...

I have a few different sets of these stamped Cents with the states on them - the exact shape of the state and the location of the letters representing the state are different, so there must have been a few companies making these. Most sets I have are not gold plated. One is.

It's a very nice collectible. Especially if you're into "mutilated coins", as I like to call them (punched / stamped / counterstamped coins, elongated coins, love tokens, hobo nickels, pop-out / repousse coins, etc...).

 

I wouldn't call them "capped". A capped or "shell" cent is an embossed copper shell that a cent is placed into and the edge of the shell rolled or crimped to the cent to hold it in place. One shell cent I would like to acquire was one sold as a souvenir outside the courthouse at the Bruno Hauptmann Lindbergh kidnapping trial.

 

I had the Apollo set minus one at one time but recently sold it to finance some other coins I wanted.

 

I'm not sure if this is anything topic related...



... but, this one made it north of the border...



... and by the way, this one is really well done...

 

How very funny - the elongated cent is MY design! I still roll this design, give it out to our men and women in uniform and sell them to others who wish to do the same!

 

I know, I pulled the image from your website.

 

Oh... LOL!

 

At the beginning of 2014 I started buying collections from folks who wanted to sell them. Go through them, keep what I want and re-sell the rest. In one such lot this year I found 2 1968(or 9) LMCs which had been stamped with the Batman Insignia and one of them had a Jet...like an air line jet, and I had the 007 cent with Lincoln smoking a pipe. All pretty cool. All four were in great shape...they were unc and the two Batman coins were what I would consider lower grade BU. I sold each of them as I wasn't interested in them at the time, but I regret selling the Bat Man ones...I seem to be saying this a lot lately. I think my collecting tastes have expanded this year to areas which I hadn't expected.

@OdedPaz some of those punched coins are really cool. I especially like that 1972 Kennedy half with the smaller 1964 Kennedy Half obverse stamped in the middle of the original obverse. The Appolo moon coins are awesome too. I'm a big NASA\Space fan...I'll have to find some of those fro my collection.