Welcome to Bad Numismatics!

For those of you old enough to remember the first few seasons of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd did a wonderful bit that began "I'm Leonard Pinth-Garnell. Welcome to 'Bad Playhouse'". Eventually, they had Bad Playhouse
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Leonard Pinth-Garnell

Here I submit to you another in the series, "Bad Numismatics", a showcase of the worst in numismatics. Items that can only beg the question "What the hell were they thinking?". Here's my first submission. 4 mint-state 1972 Lincoln cents, permanently embedded in yellow, bubbling acrylic.

Give us your worst!

 

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Bravo!!!

 

LOL. I'll be looking forward to seeing what others may have.

 

Incredibly BAD!

So bad in fact that as I began to tell my wife about this I was suddenly overcome with a bad case of Lock Larynx.
Hopefully I shall recover soon.

 

On the bright side none of them are the DDO.

 

considering that most people don't even want them as change, I think that it is a good use of 4 cents.

But, that is just my 2 cents.
Now there is a bad use of 6 cents, total.

 

but at least they'll be gem unc forever

 

And with much effort and trouble they can be removed again.

 

At the low, low price of 2 gallons of acetone.

 

I never said it would be financially feasible.

 

Conspiracy press 1971:

Government agents in black helicopters to conficate all 1972 pennies.

 

If none of you submit your own examples, I'll be forced to bring out the next one of mine!