Advertising on the back of a penny.

[Ardent Listener]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... e=1&ref=nf

[Diggin4copper]

Lots of large cents were stamped with store initials.. I have found one or two while detecting..

[everything]

I don't find many stamped pennies and I save them if I do. I find lots of stamped halves though, all kinds of weird stuff, nothing that screams save me, never saved any of them.

[cesariojpn]

Dont have Facebook what's going on?

[henrysmedford]

Dont have Facebook what's going on?

Counter stamped cent.

[Country]

That's a beauty.

A true piece of American history. Nice...

[cesariojpn]

Wonder if that is legal nowadays. Cost a lot more than the face value probably.

[knibloe]

I believe it would be legal. You are not defacing it with the intent to defraud anyone. I have seen people place advertising stickers on halves.

[Z00]

-CITE-
18 USC Section 475 01/02/2006

-EXPCITE-
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 25 - COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY

-HEAD-
Sec. 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements

-STATUTE-
Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title. Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service.

-SOURCE-
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 706; July 16, 1951, ch. 226, Sec.
2, 65 Stat. 122; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G),
Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 109-162, title XI, Sec.
1192, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3129.)


-MISC1-
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 292 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, Sec. 177, 35 Stat. 1122).
Enumeration of obligations of the United States was omitted in view of definition in section 8 of this title.
Changes in phraseology were also made.

AMENDMENTS
2006 - Pub. L. 109-162 inserted at end "Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service."
1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for"fined not more than $500".
1951 - Act July 16, 1951, prohibited use of notices or advertising prints or labels on United States coins.-End-

[SilverEye]

Repeal that section, and let companies sponsor the penny for a nickel a piece. Penny turns a profit again.

[NoCents]

Way to ruin a nice Indian.

[knibloe]

Way to ruin a nice Indian.

it was just a regular indian when it was done