Coin and Paper Money Collecting/possible misprint

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Expert: - 2/5/2008


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i came upon a 1978 penny that seems to have the oklahoma state stamped on
it. its located right next to Abrahams face. inside the state its got the initials OK
which i believe is for Oklahoma. but in either case do you think this might be a
misprint? or do u believe it was stamped on after it went into circulation?

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David,

This is one of a set of 50 manually manufactured state pennies.  This is NOT something done at the mint, but rather somebody took a roll of pennies and manually stamped each state image onto them.

These were usually mounted on a display board and sold as a novelty item -- recently getting about $20 for the set on eBay.

A single coin, like you have, is worth about 10 cents as a novelty item.

I hope this helps,

Dan

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