Expert: Jim Lawniczak - 1/10/2007

Question
Hi I believe I have a missprint pentagon on a US penny I think date is 45

Answer
Hello, Mike, not sure I understand what you are describing.  If there is a picture of the Pentagon or a pentagon on your 1945 U.S. cent, I would guess that someone probably stamped it on after the piece was minted.  This happens, sometimes by people just goofing off with coins or by novelty houses (though I don't think that the pentagon would be something a novelty house would stamp on -- usually they stamp a picture of Kennedy).  To be sure, you'd have to show the piece to an expert at a coin shop or a coin show.  Try a search at www.google.com for coin show (or coin shop) and your city.  Hope this helped, Jim Lawniczak