Hi, I came across to U.S. coins and I believe they have been counterstamped. I know for sure that one of them is a large cent and the other has a face with the liberty crown and a tiny portion of a wreath on the back. They're both about 30-32mm in diameter. Is there any significance of what's stamped into the coins? Coin 1: Spoiler Coin 2: Spoiler
J . Hicks is a known counterstamp on a 1831 large Cent Brunk-( h-548 ). Cast steel is a warrant stamp to show something is real, that is what I think !
from the experience ive had with counterstamps ive learned that the more desireable counterstamps are the ones that has more than someone's initials, so your "J. Hicks-Cast Steel" holds more value than the one with "J.E.M" because it required more cost for the merchant to produce a single punch with a phrase or advertisment with uniformly aligned letters than individual punches with unaligned letters as seen on your second set of pictures. that J hicks coin is pretty cool and the fact that its a known merchant enhaces its provonance.
