Double Stamped penny?

[mjc21]

Double Stamped penny?

So I got this coin:

“Tail” Side
standard penny except in comparison to the rest of the tail’s side:
Lincoln Head pressed in and upside down in comparison to the rest of the tail’s side
The word LIBERTY runs upside down and backwards through the building’s columns, also pressed into the penny
Head and Building cross +

“Head Side”
standard penny except in comparison to the rest of the head’s side:
Building runs roughly 87 degrees from the base of the coin, running left to right from the top of Lincoln’s head down to his shoulder at the base.
ONE CENT inverted and to the left of Lincoln’s back.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA runs inverted from base around the right ending with the last A of America touching the first T in the head side’s TRUST (IN GOD WE TRUST)

Etc.
Heads face the same direction
Year is 1999
Coin’s diameter is slightly wider than a regular penny, maybe half a centimeter

Is it legit? Is it worth anything?

 

[Thunderfoot]

Legit...yes, though the US mints try to ensure quality control, there are a few that make it through that don't quite "fit the mold" as it were.

Worth anything? That is a lot harder to determine. If it is just a simple strking error then 'probably' not, however, there is no accounting for what is popular with collectors. At an auction it may go for a penny (face value) or more... there are just too many variables at stake.

If it was part of a series of coins that had been incorrectly struck and that story had made it into coinc collecting news, then YES! (The three legged buffalo is probably one of the most famous) But if it is just an oddity (and I'm guessing it is) you might get 'something' from a very interested penny collector, but I wouldn't try to bankroll your kids' college fund with it.

 

[mjc21]

Thanks for the quick response.

We often see odd coins in the accounting office, and we "buy them out occasionally." I've purchased some silver dimes, a red print $5, and a star $1. I saw the penny and traded it out for one of my own. The only thing worth more than face value has been the silver dimes, more for the material content than the collectibility.

I still can't figure out how we end up with so much Canadian currency.
(MS)

 

[Jesus_marley]

It is part of the Canadian conspiracy to control the world economy. Canadian currency is well travelled and has an unsettling tendency to breed with other foreign currencies. the resulting coins always favour their Canadian parentage.

 

[Merkuri]

I still can't figure out how we end up with so much Canadian currency.
(MS)

I used to work as a cashier, and one day, after I'd been at work for maybe an hour and a half, I noticed a plastic penny in my drawer. PLASTIC. Like, out of a kid's playset. It didn't even look like a real penny. I have no idea how it got there. I couldn't recall seeing it early in the day, but it could've been buried, so I wasn't sure if it was in the drawer to begin with or if I had accepted it from some customer.

I think plastic is a little worse to get than Canadian.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

What's the year on this penny?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

It is part of the Canadian conspiracy to control the world economy. Canadian currency is well travelled and has an unsettling tendency to breed with other foreign currencies. the resulting coins always favour their Canadian parentage.

No it's because it's an intelligence gathering program by somebody. It's been noticed that some canadian coins given to private military contractors that had passed through Canada were actually fitted with bugs. I wouldn't be surprised if more of them got filtered south across the border through a slight bump to the normal diffusion process.

 

[Brain]

You can't triple stamp a double stamp!

 

[kenobi65]

No it's because it's an intelligence gathering program by somebody. It's been noticed that some canadian coins given to private military contractors that had passed through Canada were actually fitted with bugs.

I believe that that story, which made the news several months ago, has since been discredited as a fabrication.

 

[Aurora]

Don't spend it!