What is this treasury coin in my box of pennies?

I don't know what this is...

 

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I think they come in cellophane Uncirculated (not proof) U.S. Mint sets

Edit #1: see link here

Edit #2: see another Cointalk thread here

 

I think these are included in Mint Sets. Someone broke open a mint set.

I looked this coin up online and it's definitely not a token or any other kind of "coin".

 

Found this on the interweb:


Token: US Mint Set (P or D)
A Mint Set from the US Mint contains uncirculated specimens of current coins. The mint makes oodles of them and sells them to collectors at exorbitant prices. Packaged with some of these sets is a small copper token with P (Philadelphia) or D (Denver) on one site. Enterprising coin dealers break the sets apart and sell the uncirculated coins separately. What is left, then, are oodles of unsold P or D tokens. You can buy them on eBay in lots of 50 for a few US dollars.

 

Cool. Thanks

 

It's a neat find.

 

It was in a roll. Not legal tender but it might make it through a Coinstar. I'll definitely keep it.

 

Would almost certainly make it through a coinstar machine. They are struck on cent planchets.