found it today in pocket change is it a counterstamp coin also the rim looks double idk any info thanks for looking
These were sold in sets in all the coin magazines (and even in other non-numismatic periodicals) when I was a kid and novice collector in the late 1970s. They each had a counterstamp of a state on them, with the state's outline. By coincidence, Wyoming just happens to have a rectangular outline. Here is one with a South Dakota counterstamp, mentioned in this CoinWorld article. I'm rather surprised to see that one, since the 2000 date is pretty late in the game for these. You see, long before anyone thought of Statehood quarters, there were these cents. But the advent of the Statehood quarters in 1999 (and other circulating commemoratives issued by the mint) probably killed the market for these privately-counterstamped novelty pieces. So it is, as you might have guessed, not something done at the mint, but rather a counterstamp added later by a private entity, to be sold as a novelty. Value? A tiny bit more than one cent, I'd say, but not much more. Just novelty value. Particularly for someone from Wyoming. Not worth much, but a fun find nonetheless! I'll bet it's from one of those vintage sets put together in the '70s, like I saw when I was a kid.
Nicely done! Not only my present home state, but the year i began collecting! (My birth as a coin collector took place in Atlanta, GA, on November 25, 1976.)
The These were issued for every state and exist singling and as complete sets of fifty available on ebay in a card for ten dollars and up plus shipping. I bought a set in a frame at my local coin club to save on postage. I imagine that they were the cheapest possible souvenir at the roadside trading posts. Buy one for each state that you have visited is most likely the sales pitch. Challenge - keep this one and try to find the other 49 by coin roll hunting. Extra points for getting them all with the same date. Stamps also come shaped like the state. Enjoy
That's a fun idea! But I wonder how many lifetimes it would take to complete while coin-roll-hunting, never mind trying to get all the host coins the same date! Even searching eBay instead of CRH, that latter challenge would be tough enough! Seriously, though, it would be fun to see how many more turn up, and how many different states one could find. I've found four or five different presidents from the old 1950s/'60s Shell Oil series of presidential medals - not while coin roll hunting, but metal detecting. PS - the stamp on his coin IS shaped like the state. Wyoming just happens to be a plain rectangle.
I have complete sets of the shell presidents and cars on the card that was used to store them. Since some fetched prizes it is difficult to complete the sets. I was thinking of reproducing the game cards to display my duplicates when I trade or sell them with the proviso that the game card is not original. My remakes will also be on heavier cardstock as the originals are thin & flimsy.
Perhaps it would be doable IF the CRH-ers as a group worked together to create a complete VIRTUAL set from their own posted finds. Similar to the date and country perpetual collections now running on Coin Talk.
I remember it well. You were a spry 6-year old and Granddaddy gave you your first Indian Head Cent. Is that how you start the stories?
Didn't read the link, didja? Grandmomma, not Granddaddy. Not an IHC, either, but one of those would have excited me.