Star Shaped Lincoln

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Mrr1073
Mrr1073 Posts: 1 ✭
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Hello,

Hopefully I am submitting this correctly. Can anyone provide some insight as to why this 1937 D Lincoln Wheat Reverse Cent has a concave star shape on the obverse? I truly appreciate any input given. This coin was found personally in a random coin roll.



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  • Aspie_Rocco
    Aspie_Rocco Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Looks like a basic counter stamp. Interesting find in a roll, congrats. You can find other counter stamped coins on eBay. It is not stamped like that at the mint. It is something some folks do or buy, like for lottery scratchers or as a lucky coin.

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  • IkesT
    IkesT Posts: 4,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Google "counterstamp".

  • pcgsregistrycollector
    pcgsregistrycollector Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    counterstamp. intersting coin though

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  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would say a counterstamp also.
    But now I'm confused.

    I'm looking for it's date.
    What ?

  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Someone was fooling around with a punch long ago. Essentially it is just a damaged coin but in today's coin market there may actually be some collectors who would pay a premium for it. (I'm not one of them.)

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  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Well, looking for that date, this popped out. THIS DATE, hit the bone and made me see
    embossed stars. What a quawinkeedink.

    '

    I'll stop because this thread focused on a counterstamped star. But.....

  • thebeav
    thebeav Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When I was a youngster I bought, for 25 cents each, a cent with Lincoln smoking a pipe and one with him smoking a cigar. Someone had a punch and stamped them. I thought they were amazing !
    Now that I think of it, I bought them with a silver quarter....darn.....

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  • World67
    World67 Posts: 13,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @IkesT said:
    Google "counterstamp".

    Is there no end to this madness?

  • rmpsrpms
    rmpsrpms Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Do Zinc Cents hold up well to counterstamping?

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  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @rmpsrpms said:
    Do Zinc Cents hold up well to counterstamping?

    They take the counterstamp just fine but if any zinc gets exposed in the process then there can be issues.

    Same for elongated cents.

  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    there are microscopic holes in plain minted zincolns

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