What kind of variety is this?

Cladiator

Never heard of or seen anything like this...I've seen hobo nickels and kennedy halves but never anything on a cent. weird.

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JrGMan2004

I've seen em before... I think it's just a novelty item... but I might be wrong...

airplanenut

<< <i>I've seen em before... I think it's just a novelty item... but I might be wrong... >>

Nope, you're right

Cladiator

looks pretty novelty to me lol

paul43438

That's exactly what they are, a novelty. Used to see lot of them. I don't think that they have any real value.

MSD61

That's also known as an accented beard kennedy

jhuberdude

Did someone make a die and whack a few hundred, or are they just scratched into the coins one at a time.
It looks familiar to me.
John

MrSpud

I bought one of those when I was a kid. I still have it. It came with a little story about all of the weird coincidences that they could find between Lincoln and Kennedy. Stuff like "Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse, Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater". The coin has a distortion area on the other side of the coin where Kennedy is that makes it look like these were stamped into the coin and not scratched into it.
MrSpud

291fifth

The "Lincoln Looks at Kennedy" pennies have been around for 40 years. They are strictly a novelty item. Very little value.

cladking

Cents like these were often impressed with other dies in the '60's and '70's.
There are hundreds of different dies which have been used to make these. The
most extensive series have state outlines from the mid-'70's.

joecool

nankraut

cladking has got it right.

relayer

They were a novelty coin back in the 70's

coppercoins

Correctly called counterstamps, these are novelties punched into normal cents by novelty companies. The most common types on Lincoln cents are:

1. Lincoln-Kennedy: Usually issued with a card telling of the similarities between the two. These started showing up as early as 1964. Many were given out at banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, and the like, and they had advertising on the lower section of the card. Jokingly I call these "Lincoln-Superman" because the little figure looks more like Christopher Reeves than Kennedy.

2. Lincoln with the state outlines: Started up around 1967 and were sold either in sets or singles at checkout stands in gift shops and truck stops. No particular purpose for these other than the novelty.

3. Lincoln with bicentennial themes: Usually on 1976 cents, include Liberty Bell, stars, the flag, and the dates 1776/1976.

4. Lincoln with other items: a pipe, cigar, bible, and a rose would be the most common. No specific purpose other than as a gimmick.

5. Lincoln with emblems: Usually older, my earliest is 1913, latest is 1975. Masonic emblem, shriner's emblem, boy scout emblem, and other organisational emblems.

Other than these the selection would usually be a word, name, or something else odd. No telling what a "complete" set would be. The five different subjects above comprise over 75% of the ones I've seen. These often sell for a buck or two, and really shouldn't exceed that unless they are older and obviously contemporarily struck, then I might consider $5. Any any rate none of them are rare or valuable.