Coins with overstrikes / counter stamps thread

already posted these a while back, going to try and sell em at next coin show...

 

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i also had a counterstamp made...cost 57.00 it is my personal motto, borrowed from aleistair crowley, it is also a tatoo i got implanted on my hand it means: "I shall endure to the end" and was his personal motto in magikal works....tried on cents, did not work so well, maybe i need to make a jig..

 

Very cool. Where does one get a stamp like that made?

Z

 

Definitely Western Reserve. I need to do a little research to determine when those were used.

Z

 

impress art here is their link, it cost me 57.00 + free shipping..they can do a lot of diff. sizes as well..

https://www.impressart.com/shop?gcl...vZEgqvKIOFtj_lLnkQy9ls1j1kHDAdTsaAqZvEALw_wcB

 

Although this is nothing special, i can't figure out how they got the date stamped before the coin was minted. I mean, it's a 1975 cent, how is it stamped 1974, before it was minted, huh @SensibleSal66?

Happy new year!

 

I have two NRA stamped nickels with slightly different designs. Look very carefully on the obverse of your examples. There may be a microscopic JBK stamp hidden among the design elements. This would be the initials of the counterstamper. You have to look very carefully as the initials are well hidden and very, very small.

I also have a Kennedy Half stamped with a heart and $ sign. I don't know who made these.

Bruce

 

It was stamped by someone outside of the mint and is probably an important date to him...birthday maybe or anniversary. It could have been stamped years after the coin was struck and circulated.

Bruce

 

one has "AT' stamped in pony tail the other has nothing i can see..thanks for the tip..

 

A heavy die line stretching along Liberty's thigh and piercing the waist.

 

I don't recognize the AT. Felix Schlag designed the Jefferson Nickel so it's obviously not his initials. I've asked around but never found out who struck these.

Bruce

 

I took a penny and laid it on one of the tracks to see what happened. It was flat as a pancake, as my mother would say. Now, when I showed it to my father, He told me that it could have derailed the train and killed all the passengers. He took the flattened coin from me, never to be seen again. I believed him because he was my father and I trusted him. I was 9 at the time and I never did it again.

 

Here's my other two Western Reserve conterstamped coins.

Bruce

 

This is a timely topic for me considering this Kennedy was just pulled from a box of halves today. The dates stamped above IGWT is obviously significant to a previous owner.

 

I've seen dozens of theses stamped Kennedys bit could never figure out what the dates referred to. Some examples I've seen are plated.

Bruce

 

I've got a couple of new ones coming in. I'll get photos as soon as they arrive.

That Peace Dollar is really special as well.

Z

 

May’s Washing Powder
On 1855 A France Dix Centimes Maybe May Stores St Louis c 1880
Originally Leadville CO

 

May's is an English company, Heavymetal. Henry May manufactured this product in London 1867-1907. Not a common stamp but not difficult to find one.

Bruce

 

Ah overstruck coins! One of my favourites. I haven't updated my site for a while as I have purchased some unusual overstrikes.

China isn't going to like this but this is an overstruck example to protest about Tienanmen square massacre.



The rest of my overstruck coins can be seen here

World coins (except Russia)
http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrike/world_overstrike.htm

Russian overstruck coins
http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/overstrike/rus_overstruck.htm