Post your chopmarked/counter stamped coins!

That's the legend I always remember, Paddy. A bit gruesome and possibly a bit "enhanced", but back then it actually may have happened.

Although the symbol is commonly used by modern day Loyalists, I've only come across one other coin counterstamped with a Red Hand. I've attached a picture. I paid dearly for this one, but it was so unusual that I didn't fret about it. Also political symbolism on older coins like this are rare.

Bruce

 

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These are nice???

 

Doesn't DON get used on the OIXFORD campus in some way?
Looks like a guy in university robes to me.

 

S IN A DIAMOND was used much later by a Japanese token maker named SEGA
and appears on several US military club tokens used in Vietnam and one version shows a very large logo as the only design. Don't know what it meant in the
period of your piece.

 

Was there an Australian Infantry Division with
this designation serving in World War One?

 

You're right, harley. The title Don is used at both Oxford and Cambridge. Please see my response to Diplodocus in Message #86 this thread.

Bruce

 

Thanks Bruce. As you can see I respond as I see things for two reasons. One is that I confuse myself if I scroll up and down a bunch of times. The other reason is that I can't hold a thought when I'm reading a bunch of comments. If I read them all I would forget that I had anything to add let alone what and to whom. Cheers.

 

Great! I appreciate the information, I would have never known that! I bought it thinking Sacramento!

 

Wow! Here I am again with another Try Corey's Ointment quarters, I had posted my first one in 2014 right here in this thread! I bought this 2nd one off the bay and it was kind of a last minute buy. I think this one has been treated with Verdicare, as it shows the film on it left to protect the coin. That's ok, it's older than my other one and it's in better condition. Just showing off again, ya' gotta excuse me, I can't help myself, it's just way too much fun for me!

 

Some very early North American currency

 

Qa'iti State c/s

 

I have a number of these but this is the first I have seen that was countermarked.

The seller had it listed as a Veracruz countermark but I have yet to find anything to confirm this.

Mexico Oaxaca 1813

Obverse: Bow, arrow, SUD in floral ornamentation
Reverse: Morelos monogram, .8.R., date surrounded by ornate flowery fields
Composition: Copper

 

Ottoman 40 para with a Thasos c/s along with a few others

 

A couple of fun ones especially the Chinese piece. The script means "Air Fare"; have fun with that one.

 

This coin I've had for a long time and was always one of my favorites. These stamps that include an address are a bit unusual, so it has extra appeal to me. Examples of his stamp are fairly rare, only about a dozen being known.

Samuel Drabble was a cutler in London doing business at 1 High Street. He was at the same address from 1834 until 1881.

Bruce

 

Cool piece, Bruce. I was curious as to what "Mary Le Bone" was. I see that it was an upper crust section of London. It makes sense that a draper would best be established among folks who could then afford drapes.

 

One of the classic counterstamped coins, the Spanish dollar converted to an English coin but using a counterstamp which left us with "The head of a fool on the neck of an ass."



American silver dollars got the treatment. This piece is very rare. I snapped this picture through the glass at the mint museum at the Tower of London.