Not an error. Novelty Cent. Yours is a Counterstamp of Liberty Bell and the USA. Here is one I found metal detecting.. Bunny
After market counter punched. Not really any value since the coin is considered damaged. The more you look, the more you'll find and eventually, you'll get tired of hauling them around. You see, folks and companies do a lot of different things to coins in order to generate a dollar. There was a time in the past where magazine advertisers would modify thousands of these just to sell them as some type of doodah in Readers Digest, Time, TV Guide and blah blah blah. Kennedy Half Dollars and Eisenhower Dollars were commonly gold plated and sold the same way.
I had no idea these even existed, thought maybe it was a bicentennial thing. Nothing wrong w/ learning something new everyday. Thank u for the info, much appreciated
I have found probably 15-20 of these types over the years in circulation.. I at one point had a full set of the States, I sold them all off for I think a buck a piece. I do still have the Kennedy one like the one above around somewhere though.
They are "Novelty Cents" made after leaving the mint. You can do a search and find just about anything on a cent. Usually sell for $2.00 or less.
You might have a point there! 1976, The Liberty Bicentennial Bell and USA are symbolic of that celebration.
And I learned something new today! YES! I googled those key words together and these images came up...
Conterstamps like this were definitely popular around the time of the Bicentennial, and were widely advertised in magazines around that time. I remember this since I started collecting in '76. So yes, could have been Bicentennial-related (many were), but the counterstamps are an "aftermarket" alteration done to the coin. The US Mint had nothing to do with it.
These are known as novelty Cents. You can search them on the Internet and buy all you want on new coins.
You're welcome. We've had a rash of old threads brought back up life. It's always best to start a new thread for anything.
