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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3132228, member: 10461"]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one with a South Dakota counterstamp, mentioned in this <a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2016/08/lincoln-cents-counterstamped-post-mint-production.all.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2016/08/lincoln-cents-counterstamped-post-mint-production.all.html" rel="nofollow">CoinWorld article</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.coinworld.com/content/dam/cw/news/2016/August/082916/lincoln-cents-counterstamped-after-production/south-dakota-stamped-lincoln-cent-lead.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Value? A <i>tiny </i>bit more than one cent, I'd say, but not <i>much</i> more. Just novelty value. Particularly for someone from Wyoming.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3132228, member: 10461"]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 [URL='https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2016/08/lincoln-cents-counterstamped-post-mint-production.all.html']CoinWorld article[/URL]. [IMG]https://www.coinworld.com/content/dam/cw/news/2016/August/082916/lincoln-cents-counterstamped-after-production/south-dakota-stamped-lincoln-cent-lead.jpg[/IMG] 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 [I]tiny [/I]bit more than one cent, I'd say, but not [I]much[/I] 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.[/QUOTE]
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