HELP IDENTIFYING THIS PENNY PLEASE

My son-in-law had this penny he got years ago and we are trying to figure out why it is stamped the way it is and what value it might have. I am curious myself just to see how it came about. Maybe some of you lincoln penny experts can help with this. Thanks in advance!!

 

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Hi
That is the medal or token that was added to the Philadelphia mint set, It really has no value, as every set had one in it, over the years. Denver also did one for the D sets.
Drop by a local coin shop and look at any year mint set and you will find the P and D mint medals in the packaging.

 

Pretty cool little token, like Robert said no value.

 

the united states has never made a coin called a penny. that is a mint set token that was included in Philadelphia Mint sets and souvenir sets from 1983-1998. its worthless, but coinstar machines accept them as 1 cent

 

coinstar does really!

 

Thanks for the info.

 

yeah i dumped 100 of them i got for free in a "coins4ca$h" machine (like coinstar without the fees, and they accept halves) and got a dollar

 

I found a couple of them in cent roll searches - sort of funny to think they actually make it into circulation.

 

they are accepted by the machines because they are minted on one cent planchets

 

One thing that coin machines don't take usually are proof cents. I have actually missed some when I do roll searches - and they end up in the reject slot.

 

Might be because the squared up edges make them seem a little thicker to the machine?

 

It's interesting to see a brown, circulated "uncirculated" token! I don't think I've ever seen one worn that much.