Found this while searching a brinks box of pennies. Did a web search, turned up nothing. Can anyone help? As always, thanks in advance!
Yup! It was counterstamped then glued to some sort of presentation board. They come with all states and Kennedy, and are very common.
okey dokey. Of course, the coin carries no innate collector's value so nothing from nothing means nothing (baby...LOL song lyric). Thanks for the info!
Some people collect counterstamps Collector value is up to the discretion of the collector. I agree that these stamped Lincoln & Kennedy coins are very common but they may still be collected and valued. I think everyone knows that old time counterstamps can command a lot of money. Last year I almost got one that was marked "wizzard". The dealer sold it to someone else even though I had put dibs on it. I saw a similar wizzard stamped coin at FUN & the guy wouldn't sell it. According to the FUN dealer it was part of his collection and way too valuable to sell to me.
It's considered 'counter stamped' and such coins can and are collected, though these coins, of modern marketed creation and available in vast quantities tend not to command a premium from collectors. Some coin collectors who don't collect or know much about counter stamped coins easily dismiss such coins as damaged. While these were marketed as collectibles and that usually prevents something from being widely appreciated as a collectible by a body of collectors, people can and do collect them. While these are not currently highly valued in the same way as chop-marked coins or store advertising stamps on 19th century US coins for example, they do have a place among counter stamped collecting, exumonia and such kinds of collecting in much the same way as elongated cents are produced as low cost novelty and collected for enjoyment. No, it's not going to be a numismatic treasure but that doesn't mean it's useless, worthless nor fun to collect for it's oddity to you or novelty.
So I'll just put it in my Volume of Oddities with my 2/3 GFD, my split plate where the mint mark fell off and the like. Even if no monetary value, *I've* never seen one before, so it's collectible. Muchisimos Gracias, Danke Schein, Merci Beaucoup and Thank You!
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Oops! wrong story. As the others have pointed out these are common and collectors value is up to a collector of these counterstamped items.
Ah, in the good old high school days, in metal shop we made chisels, rings, shivs, and counterstamp dies of our mascot. Until the stamping showed up on the next town rival's cars. Today they would just sabotage their facebook pages
They're called "state pennies", a counterstamped series, supposed to be some sort of challenge to collect them from circulation, seems kind of impossible to me.
Yup, that would be a counterstamped "state penny". I inherited a full set from my step-grandfather. Yours appears to be an "original" in that they were most popular from 1975-1977 with the 200 year anniversary and most of the "state" ones were made then. That's not to say it wasn't done since then, just a good chance its an "original".
