This pressed penny prototype reverse or backstamp guide features examples of Disneyland Neverland "backstamps", "reverses" or "mules". These are "prototype" reverses that were never offered to the public. Most examples are early experimental art and design. To the right of this article is a DL0251 Main Street USA elongated coin, the first to offer a backstamp on any Disney stage. However, the example shown is not at all like the first backstamp that was ultimately offered to Disneyland elongated coin collectors. And it was pressed on a steel cent, instead of the nickel coin that was ultimately offered publicly. Possibly, before its release, the machine was scheduled as a penny press? All conjecture, but, fun to wonder what place the prototype elongated coins and prototype backstamps have in the history and development of the first pressed pennies and backstamps at any Disney park.

Please do not view this guide as complete. Prototype coins are few and far between, often not discovered by collectors until long after their creation. If you have one not listed, please contact us. We'd love to credit your find and add its image to this guide.

Other elongated coin reverses or "pressed penny" backstamps from the Disneyland Resort are listed in the other respective guides linked above. See also " Disneyland Resort Elongated Coin Guides", "Disneyland Canceled Coins" and "Disneyland Elongated Coin Test Rolls" for additional details about coins in this "DN-R" Guide.

For an easy visual of how the guide sections make one complete Disneyland Elongated Coin Collection, ParkPennies.com offers a graphical overview of the Complete Disneyland Resorts Guide to Pressed Pennies and Elongated Coins.

Although the numismatic term is "Reverses", we use that term interchangeably with the more casual term, "Backstamp"

(Horizontal image) DISNEYLAND no ® (inverted) in a "dot matrix" style of print; repeated four times. Steel cent variation of DL0251 shown.
Image courtesy of the N. Wooten Collection.
In keeping with the Disney tradition of providing a better quality souvenir, in 2004, Disneyland introduced the DL0251 back stamped nickel. With this introduction, Disneyland became the first Disney Park to ever offer two sided elongated coins, also known as "Mules". This coin appears to be evidence of early experiments with varied "back dies", "back shafts" or "backstamp" engravings with its DL0251DNR reverse.