Has anyone seen anything like this counterstamp???

oldshep

I got this in change the other day and noticed the counterstamp of the state of Tennesse - weird...has anyone ever seen this? is there a story behind this I wonder?



Shep

Smittys

I think it's Tennesse

mcmxi

These were done for every state.

oldshep

Shep

Weiss

Yeah, they're novelty pieces made by the thousands. Collect 'em all kind of thing. Popular around the time of the bicentennial (yours is a 1976). They're private after-mint things. Also seen them with busts of Kennedy, Lincoln, etc.

No real value.

AskRaq

I don't know who does them, or why, but I've seen many of the states counterstamped on Lincoln. My guess, is they probably have them at a souvenier shop near the states border? So, maybe you can complete a 50-state Lincoln collection??

When I was a kid in 1977, we lived in Ohio for 2 years, and when we attended the "Sweet Corn Festival" I just HAD to have the shiny LIncoln cent with The state of Ohio counterstamped to the right of Lincoln, and an ear of corn counterstamped to the left (it's still in the little yellow envelope in my jewelry box... 30 years later)

mcmxi

Ive seen some where Lincoln has a qoute in a cartoon like bubble coming out of his mouth.

millennium

At one time, because I am a coin collector , a friend gave me a complete set of the Lincoln Cents like that stamped with all of the states....They were on a decorated cardboard holder..I think they were dated from 1972 through 1980...

oldshep

I'll bet that this one came from one of those collections because it is in too good of condition to have circulated for 31 years.
Thanks for the info all.
Shep

JxnBoy

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Barbercoin

I've found these too while searching rolls.

I also have two with a JFK protrait in the same place.

Hey, if it sparks interest in coins........ that's great news!

Blackhawk

My brother brought me a couple large cardboard boxes full of weird coin stuff that his mother-in-law had saved over the years expecting me to sell it for him. I think that there's a couple sets of these state cents in there.

AskRaq

I pick them up out of the token/junk boxes (4/$1.00) on occasion for the YN's... a whole 50 state collection would actually be pretty cool!

ricko

Novelty pieces made by the thousands... have even seen them in circulation.. no value ... Cheers, RickO

Aegis3

"TN" is upside-down.

fc

i like things like that. def a keeper for an album. nice post.

GrumpyEd

I don't go out of my way looking for these but I find them while searching circulated rolls. It makes sort of a mini collection. The pics are not great!

These are bicentenial designs, the moose might be a moose lodge but it's a 1976 so it's bicentenial.
USA, liberty bell, soldier with 13 star flag and cannon, moose

These are Kennedy designs. The 1969 is a Masonic symbol.

These are moon landing designs, the lunar lander on the moon with crew walking, command module orbiting and earth on the horizon dated 7-20-1969. Not sure about Abe with the pipe, maybe from woodstock in 1969? Also not sure about the S on the 1968.

fc

cool collection. amazing. keep it going. thanks for posting it ed.

PrivateCoinCollector

I have one with the moon on it! That's gotta be cooler than any little 'ol state.

numobri

I have a few myself.




Brian

sumnom

I like the moose.

When I was in second grade a kid found a cent with a Lincoln counterstamp. It was as if Lincoln was looking at himself. Us kids were all dumbstruck. We couldn't figure out what it was.