Howdy boricualoko - Welcome to the Forum !! It is a bust of Kennedy next to Lincoln. These are novelty coins manufactured by private companies after the coins leave the mint.
Oh ok, thanks a lot for the quick response and also for the nice welcome. This is a great place i've been looking at for some time now. Keep up the good job!
I remember seeing those advertised in the 70s. (Was it TV Guide?) as "The Amazing Lincoln-Kennedy penny. Came with a list of bizarre trivial coincidences such as "Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln"...
And they’re still around. I pick up counterstamps like this when I can get them cheap (and they are often available in quantity for little money). I might even start collecting by date. I am not sure if the specific manufacturers can ever be identified – they are just done as novelties. But, I guess it could be a specialty for the future. I recently bought an Indian cent with a heart with the words “I love you” inside. Not sure how old the c/s is – could be new, but maybe this was one of the earliest ones of this sort of thing.
I never saw a coin with that Kennedy opposite face. It seems to be a "grafity" portrait that was privately made by an artisan.
Thanks everyone for responding. I never saw this, so i thought i had a fortune in my hands. ;-) it sure looks nice!! Thanks again
I posted this in another discussion but, I also have a penny collection, in a framed map with each state struck infront of Lincoln. Each are 1974 w/various mint marks. The map says the coins are BU but now I wonder what I really have if anything. Ideas, links, a punch in the nose for being a dingaling, then: piperkirk@msn.com Many thanks from the Smokey Mtns of Tennishoe.
What you have is a set of novelty coins that were produced by a private company. They would take genuine US cents and then countermark ( for lack of a better term ) them with an image of the various US states and then sell them. From a practical and realistic point of view these coins have no value - they are considered by most collectors as damaged coins. But from a collecting point of view - if you like this sort of thing, and having a complete set is an accomplishment all by itself, then great ! Personally I've never known of anyone who had a complete set of these.
Groovey, GDJMSP! Major thank you my friend. I'd found nothing significant on the web til this forum. Now this is the kinda thing that makes ya go, "hmmmmmm." right? I wonder.....?????? I'll post pics as soon as my remodel and move are over and my pc stuff is in order. I'll also b posting pics of some of my genuinely cool collectables soon. Again, thank you. Peace, Piper
as you mention states GD , i just found one about a week ago with FLORIDA on it , sort of threw me off since all i had seen were the KENNEDY type ones !! i now have 3 KEN. and 1 FLOR. and as you said they don't really have any value over face but alot of people haven't seen these
i remember as a kid, I used to see them.around ,like sombody said earlier, how they are still in circulation . The first one i seen was in the late sixties, i had no interest in them like GD said ,they are only novelty coins. I would say cool to keep to show to other individuals. Jazzcoins Joe :whistle::whistle: