Coin and Paper Money Collecting/two pennies

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Expert: - 5/3/2010


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My first penny is only stamped on the tails side.The heads side is plain metal. The other one I believe is doubled stamped. It is smaller then your average penny,it also has a thick ring around the outside rim. I cannot tell a date on either of them. Are they worth anything?

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Diane,

Sorry but both of your coins have been altered after they left the mint.  It's not possible to strike one side of a coin without the coin being noticably mis-shapen, so somebody had to remove the heads side manually.  And somebody beat on the edge of the second coin, raising the rim and reducing the diameter of the coin.

Considered altered or damaged, neither coin has any collector value.

Dan

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