Expert: PAPAJACK - 2/27/2009

Question
I have one too. Are you sure that there is no value?? I believe that it is real and is limited edition. i found it and have kept it in a safe place just incase it is worth something. I sure hope it is other than a one cent piece.

Answer
Hello Kristina,                       

I do not remember answering this question lately you might have been reading another’s answer. .

Your cent was a normal coin prior to its disfigurement.

These cents are novelty souvenirs and are not a mint product. Therefore they are only worth what someone is willing to pay for a gimmick or fantasy piece.

For the Lincoln-Kennedy cents were made many years after 1964 as a novelty.
These coins are not an error or an official issue, but were made by someone who manipulated a regular U.S. one-cent coin by simply stamping an image of John F. Kennedy next to Lincoln.
Several variations on this theme circulate. They usually come on a card with the strange similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy.

Both Were Shot. Lincoln shot in a theater and Kennedy's assassin was caught in a theater. Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and J. F. Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. Among many other inferences.  

None of these fantasy coins hold a numismatic value. They are worth only a cent or maybe more as a conversation piece. They have been made since the late sixties.

Here are some sites giving the coincidences some are off the wall.

http://theshadowlands.net/jfk.htm

http://hcs.harvard.edu/demon/issues/nov_20_1999/lincoln-kennedy/lincoln-kennedy....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dryguy/Lincoln_Kennedy_Coincidences

Good Luck

PapaJack