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starwarsgeek171
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
651 Posts |
 Posted - 03/17/2008 : 18:15:53
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I found a 1975-D Penny with a small Liberty Bell stamped to the left of Lincoln's head and a mini-map of the United States with U.S.A. inside stamped to the right (very crisp stamps/not elongated). Does anyone know about this?
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 18:47:37
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| I have two of those along with a common of state-stamped cents. |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 21:00:00
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got one with kennedy on it
and no, i dont know |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 21:40:23
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Anyyone know of machines that do that? The only ones I can find are the elongated ones. Post any links you find.
I've got a penny with Support Ecology and the Ecology Flag from 1972. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 21:52:33
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| It can be done with an engraver. I have one but I am not that tallented. All I can do is carve a big H in a zinc penny. I think they have it set up so that a computer controls the engraving device. |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 22:24:16
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You can buy hardened steel letter punches.
Imagine! Thousands of Zincolns all carefully stamped with hammer and punch....HCBTT |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 23:40:28
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| I think I have a set of those punches hidden somewhere out there in the shop. It would be easier than the engraving tool. But I had my experience with stiking things with a hammer at the 100th annual ANA convention in Chicago in 1991. They had a setup where you could strike your own coins.. like they did it in the old days. Pretty scary! |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
 Posted - 03/18/2008 : 07:27:08
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| I would guess that all of the older engraved pennies were made with something like a Janvier Transfer Engraving Machine. One end traces a relatively large model while the other end mimics the tracing of the model but reduces the size of the image and engraves it. Of course now a days they would just use a robot and program the image in. |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2008 : 07:50:52
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Last year we had a hand punch (just like HCBTT stated) made with our company logo on it.
we hand struck 1000. pennies to hand out as "collector pennies" I am certain that the pennies with kennedys head, liberty bell, flag, etc. are all made the same way.... I am also sure it is done on a mechanical press and not by hand as it takes a while and results in more errors.
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2008 : 08:09:19
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Originally posted by PennyProspector
Last year we had a hand punch (just like HCBTT stated) made with our company logo on it.
we hand struck 1000. pennies to hand out as "collector pennies" I am certain that the pennies with kennedys head, liberty bell, flag, etc. are all made the same way.... I am also sure it is done on a mechanical press and not by hand as it takes a while and results in more errors.
pp
Maybe, I just figured that a punch would cause some distortion of the metal especially on the opposite site, but I supposed if you punched it with just the right force enough you could make those fine images without causing any visible damage elsewhere. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2008 : 08:56:09
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| Or if you were hand positioning and punching on leather with a solid surface underneath And not too much presure for the stamp.... It shouldn't cause distortion. But I have no experience... so take it as just two cents. |
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Posted - 03/20/2008 : 20:36:48
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| i found a copper cent with the state outline of Texas on it. i heard somewhere that some coin company stamped a bunch of cents with state outlines and patriotic designs and tried to sell them to the public a few years ago. they didn't sell many and the company just dumped the extra coins that did not sell back into circulation. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2008 : 20:43:50
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| Only 49 more states to go! It is probably dated 1975 or 1976. I have about 8 or 9 states so far but have not found a Texas yet. It came out about 30 years ago. Some of the sets they did sell have found their way back into circulation as well. |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2008 : 21:08:29
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| the kennedy one i found had this glob of glue on it as if it were glued to some paper. |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2008 : 21:26:13
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| I have 3 single state-stamped cents: VT, AR, and MI from '75, '82, and '76 respectively. |
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Loophole29
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 03/20/2008 : 22:36:18
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| I got a 1976 today with the Liberty Bell on the left and an American flag on the right. |
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