In 2004, Disneyland was the first Disney Resort to offer elongated coins with backstamps or as numismatists might say, "reverses" and for many years, was the only Disney location to offer them1. This guide is provided as a sample for collectors who may have chosen or may choose to collect only backstamps or have separate backstamp collections. Obviously, if one has a complete collection of Disneyland Resort elongated coins they, by default, also have a complete collection of all Disneyland reverses.
The Disneyland backstamp pressed penny guides are divided by gate Disneyland, DCA, Hotels+ , Cast & Event , Prototype , and Shop. Some guides have multiple pages. Guides and coin guide numbers are assigned chronologically to every known coin based on the coin's date of issue, location / purpose. Sadly, backstamp guides are often the last to be updated because they are redundant as very up to date backstamp information can be viewed in the various Disneyland pressed penny guides.
For an easy visual index covering the relationships of various guide collection sections, ParkPennies.com offers a graphical overview of the Complete Disneyland Resorts Guide to Pressed Pennies and Elongated Coins.
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Around March of 2013, backstamps were introduced near Walt Disney World by a double penny press, located inside the Disney Cruise line Terminal, offering six different Disney Cruise line pressed pennies, each with the same DCL logo reverses. And now... the moment you've all been waiting for! The amazing, the stupendous, the colossal, the eighth wonder of the world... the back side of PENNY !
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® PARK. Dot matrix style lettering. This is the very first "backstamp" or reverse ever at any Disney park, placed onstage July 30th, 2004. First issued on the DL0251 and later on the DL0251a. This coin is a part of the "Lands Set". This "dot matrix", very early style reverse reads "Disneyland ® Park". On November 12th, 2006, this die set was taken off-stage and returned November 15th 2006 as DL0380 with a new backstamp or reverse of DISNEYLAND ® RESORT. (See the DNR Disneyland Never Neverland backstamps section for what is believed to be an earlier prototype backstamp tested on this Main Street die.)
The DL0380 backstamp is offered here as a reference in attributing the DL0251a. (Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® RESORT Detail view of the DL0380, Nifty Nineties elongated nickel reverse. First on-stage at The Main Street Penny Arcade on 11/15/06. (This backstamp design was replaced by a very similar one on 5/28/07, please see the DL0380R vs. DL0408R comparison.) This coin is a part of the "Lands Set" and is from a single play machine. For a similar coin with DISNEYLAND ® PARK backstamp please refer to DL0251 and DL0251a.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® PARK. Detail view of guide coin numbers DL0255, DL0256 and DL0257, 2004 Nightmare Before Christmas pressed quarter set reverse. See also the Nightmare Before Christmas elongated coin page.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® PARK Detail view of the DL0258, DL0259 and Dl0260, Fireman Mickey, Nurse Minnie Mouse and Security Mickey Mouse quarter set reverse. (Later used on the CM0022, CM0023 and CM0024 nickel variation Cast Member only set.)
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® RESORT Detail view of the reverse, featured on the DL00261, DL00262 and DL00263, 2004 seasonal nickel set.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® RESORT. Featured on the DL0265, DL0266 and DL0267, "Main Street Vehicles" pressed nickel set.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Ezra Dobbins the Ghost. Featured on the DL0268 pressed quarter.(Each coin in this three quarter set has a different ghost as a backstamp.)
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Phineas Queeg the Ghost. Featured on the DL0269 pressed quarter. (Each coin in this three quarter set has a different ghost as a backstamp.)
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Gus Gracey the Ghost. Featured on the DL0270 pressed quarter. (Each coin in this three quarter set has a different ghost as a backstamp.)
DL0271 - DL0273 Backstamp. Reads "Buzz Lightyear ASTRO BLASTERS". This is the hard to find "Type I" backstamp. See also the DL0280 -DL0282 "Type II" and the DL0436-438 backstamp coin which adds "DISNEYLAND ® RESORT". View our Toy Story pressed penny comparison page for close up images and more details.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® RESORT. Featured on the DL0274, DL0275 and DL0276 Baby Mickey, Donald and Minnie Mouse pressed dime set. The first pressed dimes in Disney Park history.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. SPLASH MOUNTAIN in script style print. Featured on the DL0277, DL0278 and DL0283 Splash Mountain pressed penny set.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEYLAND ® PARK (The word "PARK" is the assumed small print below the word "DISNEYLAND") Featured on the DL0279 Brer Rabbit, CRITTER COUNTRY pressed penny from the "Lands Set".
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. A shooting star, MAGICAL MILESTONES, DISNEYLAND PARK 1955 - 2005. Featured on the Disneyland Park 50th Anniversary set coins.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp used on all coins in the 51 coin Magical Milestones Anniversary set. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. DISNEY’S above the words LILO AND STITCH on a surfboard logo, DISNEYLAND RESORT below. Featured on the DL0326 DL0327 and DL0328 Stitch pressed quarter set.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. Detail view of the DL0329 -331 2005 Nightmare Before Christmas quarter set reverse. See also the Nightmare Before Christmas elongated coin page.
Backstamp reads: 2005 TIM BURTONS NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS DISNEYLAND ® RESORT. This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Detail view of the DL0332 -337 2005 Nightmare Before Christmas quarter set reverse. This is the second or Type II backstamp for this quarter set which is vertical. See also the Type I DL0329-331 reverse which is horizontal. See also the Nightmare Before Christmas elongated coin page.
Type II Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Backstamp reads: TIM BURTON’S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS DISNEYLAND ® 2005.
This is a representative image of this style reverse or backstamp. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique backstamp engraving.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. Backstamp reads: HAPPY HOLIDAYS DISNEYLAND ® 2005 RESORT. Very small Mickey Mouse face at the tail of the coin. This backstamp was used only on the DL0338.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. Backstamp reads: HAPPY NEW YEAR DISNEYLAND ® 2006 RESORT. Very small Mickey Mouse image at the tail of the coin. This backstamp used only on the DL0339.
Horizontal reverse or backstamp image. Backstamp reads: SEASON’S GREETINGS, DISNEYLAND ® 2005 RESORT Small image at the tail of the coin. This backstamp was used only on the DL0340.
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Reverse Ezra Dobbins the Ghost. Compare with the DL0268 reverse.
Please refer to the ParkPennies.com Haunted Mansion elongated quarters detail page for an illustration of the scarce DL0341 - DL0343 set backstamp variations. (This DL0341 backstamp has been reported on some DL0342's. )
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Reverse Phineas Queeg the Ghost. Compare with the DL0269 reverse.
Please refer to the ParkPennies.com Haunted Mansion elongated quarters detail page for an illustration of the scarce DL0341 - DL0343 set backstamp variations. (This DL0342 backstamp has been reported on some DL0343's. )
Vertical reverse or backstamp image. Reverse Gus Gracey the Ghost. Compare with the DL0270 reverse.
Please refer to the ParkPennies.com Haunted Mansion elongated quarters detail page for an illustration of the scarce DL0341 - DL0343 set backstamp variations. (This DL0343 backstamp has been reported on some DL0341's. )
DL0346 Backstamp. Reads: Disneyland ® Park in a deep solid print script. Not dot matrix style print as is the DL0279.
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.
