Lincoln Cent Literally Struck Through

New candidate for dead president series? - just kidding - not sure if I really care for the symbolism. Some church must have done this. Makes you stop and take notice that is for sure! Could not believe it when I found it in a friends coin jar. He didn't know it was in there.

Thoughts???

 

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Definitely, post mint damage!!

Bruce

 

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Interesting. Isn't it technically illegal to do that to US coins?

 

1st thought - seperation of church and state???

2nd thought - no idea...

 

well i know they have machines that flatten them out then print something else on it. cant see how this is any worse IMO

 

Thats odd, just last week a guy at the bank was showing one of those off. Maybe some organization is trying to save a massive hoard of zinc crosses?

 

I thought I was the only one who had one of these.

 

I'm not seeing anything here... maybe another picture at a different angle?.... :goofer:

 

I was thinking the exact opposite... LOL!!!


A very interesting find... A pretty cool one IMO, and I'd say a keeper

 

They're both 2000's.Something to do with the millenium?

 

coin desecration!

 

Here's the culprit, you can order some for yourself too!

http://www.crosspennyministries.com

 

" The penny is the least of our coins in America and to many people, it is almost worthless. Though some find it hard to believe that something with such a small monetary value can mean so much just by stamping a cross into it,"

LOL!

 

Why is that funny, I'm sure it does mean something to some people.

 

I got one of them also thing is mine is an older copper cent 1980. I wonder who has this stamp machins? Ice

 

Here is my 1980-P Nickel

 

Thanks - now we know where they came from...

Yours is an error - rotated about 20 degrees CCW

Have to wonder what bank employees do with them when they come across one? The minister has punched at least a million - that is a lot of zinc crosses!

 

WOW - That would get my attention quick if I found that in a roll!

 

I thought this was a funny bit of copy, as it only acknowledges two sets of people, those who don't think much of pennies and those who inject specific ideological meaning into the altered coin. "and to many people, it is almost worthless." What about the masses of coin collectors and the people that create currency, none of them think its worthless. In fact it's such incorrect reasoning that without cents in circulation the economy wouldn't function. Coins exist for a specific operational reason.

It doesn't matter what people think this means, to each their own. I'm definitely not poking fun of these folks. It's obviously a cheap vehicle for carrying this message, thus they exploit it for ideological purposes.

Perhaps these folks have US Treasury permission to alter the coins they punch out. They did after all send a huge cross made of the punched out remnants, set on a base in the shape of the state of Texas to George W Bush (43), it's pictured on their site. In general altering US coins and currency to the extent that they must be removed from circulation remains a federal offense. Per http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm?flash=no