✅ SOLVED 7-20-69 moon landing penny???? Help!

[DiggerNick]

Hey everyone. I'm still pretty new to the site. I was going through a 25$ penny box I just bought from the bank and found this about half way in. It is 1973 Lincoln, right above is stamped 7-20-69 and has a picture of a what I think is Apollo 11 and there is two astronauts with earth above and to the left. I have never seen this before any help would be awsome!!

 

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[Peyton Manning]

it did not come from the mint like that

 

[tamrock]

I've no clue but do smell a story behind this penny and I'm eager to know what that story is.

 

[Peyton Manning]

you cannot think it was minted like that?

 

[tamrock]

you cannot think it was minted like that?

Is it me your asking that, Not at all.... I know my mint key dates and started collecting numismatics in 1967 as a paper boy. I would be paid by the folks on my route on Thursday night collection $2.50 each subscriber. Almost never in bills and many would rob the piggy bank and pay me in all pennies. My best was a 1922 no mint mark I traded with a dealer, years after in Fremont Cailifornia. If it is me you asked this question on. What was it I said that would ever give you the reason I was thinking it was minted like that?..... Lets here it!

 

[osage express]

Moon Landing 1969 Stamped US Penny by greenlandturtle on EtsyHave a look here ...Hope this helps

 

[skip_a_loo]

thought you would like to see this site.. Vintage Moon Penny ~ Space Cent! sold for $1.50
1971 vtg. July 201969 Moon Landing stamped Cent/Penny/Coin
and this
Moon Landing 1969 Stamped US Penny by greenlandturtle on Etsy

 

[skip_a_loo]

posed at the same time...didn't see that coming..sorry

 

[DiggerNick]

Thanks guys!! Never heard of these before. Still curious who made it? How many? Was that legal to stamp it? I need to keep digging.

 

[Minrelica]

Reminds me of the Kennedy penny.. Never seen a moon one though.. neato

 

[mick56]

Novelty penny, not worth much.

 

[ivan salis]

found a 1970 made token recently at a coin store in their junk bin * --cost me $1 * it said contains parts from the CM (command module) and the LM (landing module) when these tokens were made 2 parts that were on the moon spacecraft were put onto the alloy mixture * and thus the tokens actually contain a small amount of metal that went "to the moon" nuts huh? -- a couple years ago I also found a 1986 era "statue of liberty" sears token --in 1986 sears paid to have the statue of liberty copper outer skin replaced for its 100th birthday -- for doing so sears got the "old copper outer skin--the original skin of the statue of liberty-- they had tokens made from it -- it too cost me $1 to get -- I have gave both to my wife who shows them off to her students at school --3rd thru 5th grade --the kids think its cool to see some thing that went to the moon and back and to be able to hold a part of the "original statue of liberty"