Has anyone seen this before? I have a vague memory of having seen an image of a dollar stamped like this but can't remember where I saw it. The coin seems to be uncirculated so this must have been done on new coins for some thing, event, 20th anniversary? Anyone KNOW what it's about? This is the seller's image. I do know that 1939 was the "20th anniversary" of the laying of the cornerstone for the new Peace Tower but that seems a strange thing to mark by punching XX into a coin.
First time I've seen one like that. I have no idea why it would have been done. But, interesting and a keeper anyway.
Absolutely, a keeper! And, I just had a thought. the Xes are stamped one on each side of the peace tower.. Didn't Canada sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. That might make the XX a symbol of the PEACE that was to follow "The War To End All Wars." (Ironic, if that was the reason, that the next World War was just getting under way.)
Yep. I seems really good but I'm hoping someone might actually KNOW the reason and what group, society, committee, individual, (what/whoever) caused it to be done (or did it themselves.) Tall order but I still have some small amount of hope and optimism - after all, a cynic is just am optimist with experience.
Unless there is documentation of a specific reason for counterstamping these, it would be difficult to nail it down. When I was a kid, I played with my dad's letter punch set and stamped probably a couple of hundred coins with various letters and numbers. They all got spent and I'm sure a few of these wound up in collections and speculated on.
Sigh. Slipping further into cynicism...down...down... :vanish: Only thing left for me now is to watch the play-off games. :hail:
[FONT="]It is obviously a Mexican Beer Dollar, hence the Dos Equis. Struck in Mexico City it pictures [/FONT]Lazaro Cardenas del Rio in his last year as Master Brewer. The building on the reverse is a bar with an old “pouring tower” used before pressurized taps were introduced in Mexico in 1951. Beer was carried to the top and poured into a large reservoir where gravity fed it through pipes to taps throughout the bar. “Beer dollars” were the only accepted medium of exchange in bars with each establishment having their own design. Yours is in very good condition and definitely a keeper! PS: GO STEELERS!
Sounds like somebody has beer on the brain. Perhaps beer IN the brain. Me, it's -25C (-13F) here in Ottawa so I made hot chocolate. my PS: <Green Bay and Pittsburgh - otta be a good game!>
