Advanced collectors will note that to this date, only The Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, has issued any elongated coins with reverses or backstamps. And, that that is because the backstamps are engraved or etched by the Disneyland Arcade Shop Cast Members. So, one might say, all Disneyland Resort, if not all Disney elongated coin backstamps are Disneyland Arcade Shop issues and should be listed in this one guide. If life were only so easy! But, nooOOOooo! Elongated coin reverses are listed based on the die / coin with which they are matched. So far, the coin reverses here are the only Disneyland Arcade Shop coin backstamps that have been listed in our guides. More will follow.

Elongated coin reverses or "pressed penny" backstamps available outside the gates of Disneyland Park are listed in the other respective guides linked above. See also " Disneyland Arcade Shop Elongated Coin Guides", "Disneyland Canceled Coins" and "Disneyland Elongated Coin Test Rolls" for additional details about coins in this "DS-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".

 
DS0003 Very early Disneyland Shop backstamp four diagonal repeating DISNEYLAND's done in dot metrics style acid engraving. Probably the same backstamp as the early DL0251 "DN" backstamp.

MERRY CHRISTMAS in script, KEN, GEORGE, EVERETT, KATHIE, GLENN, ROB, BOYD, DAVID, JEFF, RODELIO, LAURA, DANNY, STEPH, ROGER, MIKE, ROD DS0008 REVERSE in cartoon block typeface, FROM ALL OF US in script.

 

DISNEYLAND ® RESORT DS0012 REVERSE. Of the George Meyer retirement coins, only the DS0012 has a backstamp.

DS0018 & CM0028 WORLD FAMOUS, KEN, EVERETT,
KATHIE, GLENN, ROB, BOYD, JEFF, RODEL,
LAURA, DANNY, STEPH, ROGER, MIKE, RODRIGO,
JORGE, JESSE, NATHAN, DAVE. CREW 2009
elongated quarter backstamp. (This backstamp was used on both the DS0018 and CM0028)

DS0019 ELECTRO MECHANICAL TECH, KEN, EVERETT, KATHIE, GLENN, ROB, BOYD, JEFF, RODEL, LAURA, DANNY, STEPH, RODGER, RODRIGO, JORGE, JESSE, NATHAN & DAVID PLNR. STEVE, MGR. JOEL Wishing you a Merry Christmas. Horizontal Backstamp pressed on the small "no cash value" brass token.

DS0020 MERRY CHRISTMAS, STEVE, TOM, DEBBIE,
DAVE R, DAVE M, DAVE L, BRENDA, FROM THE PICTORIAL TEAM. Horizontal Backstamp pressed on the small "no cash value" brass token.

NOTE: You may have noticed that because backstamp "dies" and coin dies are different in many ways, they are treated differently here at ParkPennies. Guides confirm that unlike coin dies, backstamp “dies” often share a single design / artwork "type" pressed onto the reverse of many different elongated coins. When these backstamp "dies" are compared to others of the same design "type", often there are slight differences as each is etched or engraved individually. To mix things up even more, it is possible for a set of three nearly identical backstamp "dies" engraved on a back shaft and paired with particular coin dies, to be accidentally or intentionally rotated when the penny press mechanism is serviced or repaired. And even more permutations are introduced if a replacement back shaft is installed with facsimiles of the original backstamp engravings. Lastly, backstamp engravings are also prone to change in appearance over time as they wear, "sink" etc., which can add variations to the same back stamp engravings over time. As you can see, these backstamp characteristics could make for a lot of “different” backstamps of the same design "type". Therefore, our guide attributions give small design variations or changes less weight when observed in backstamp "dies" vs. obverse coin dies. A good example would be the many 50th Anniversary backstamps. There are as many individual backstamp "dies" or engravings as there are coins in the 50th set, each with slight variances in placement, depth, and texture. Yet all share the same artwork / design, i.e. without intentional differences in design, and are considered one “generic type” for the purposes of listing in this guide.