Coin and Paper Money Collecting/1976 penny

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Expert: - 11/28/2007


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I got this penny in some change from the store. The penny is a 1976 d. what is strange is on the face side above the word liberty there is a stamped outline of the Liberty bell crack and all, and above the 1976 is an outline of the United states. with USA stamped in the middle. The images are very clear, definitely not something done after can you help me out?  thanks

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Hi Rick,

Those two images were manually added to a normal coin, after it left the Mint -- somebody took a normal coin and stamped those images into it.

I have seen many of these coins attached to cards that list informational historical facts about the U.S.

On the card, they sell for a couple dollars -- by themself, only about a quarter.

Dan

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