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1973 Delaware Stamped Lincoln Penny

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 Posted 03/11/2012  3:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Ann Fisher to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have a 1973 Lincoln Penny w/ the only mint stamp showing as DE in a map of Delaware on the front of the coin. Does anyone know the story behind this coin?
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 Posted 03/11/2012  5:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to CCF Ann. It is a counter stamped coin that someone has made probably a set of all 50 states was available. No real added value. You could save it and keep looking for the other 49
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Thanks John...I'll just hold on to it; now there is no other mint stamp on the front & note "FG" @ the bottom of the right stairs on back. Don't all coins have mint marks?
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most coins minted in Philadelphia do not have Mint marks, all others do have mint marks. Some series do have a P mint mark but if you see a coin without a mint mark you can automatically know it was minted in Philadelphia. Your coin with the counterstamp was part of a set that was sold by a private company and had all 50 states depicted in each counterstamp. They were either sold in a set of 50 or you could get something like the first 10 for one price and then get another one each month for an inflated price until you collected the whole set. You will see these quite often on the Lincoln Cent series and I believe there are allot of these out there because I have seen quite a few pop up on this forum throughout the years
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The FG on the back is the initials of the artist who designed the memorial reverse, Frank Gasparro. You'll find his initials on a number of other US coins.
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