Good God...When does a defaced coin warrant a premium.

Just look at this.......
http://cgi.ebay.ca/1941-Lincoln-Cen...3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:2|65:1|39:1|240:1318

 

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"There's a sucker born every minute" - PT Barnum

 

lol now that's funny

 

It makes me laugh and cry at the same time.

 

Some people collect counterstamped coins but I don't think anyone would be interested in this one (unless his initials happened to be WC).

 

Hopefully nobody will buy it.

 

"Has the initials WC stamped on it."

Thank you captain obvious.

 

too bad you can't offer less than a cent nowadays...offer him a half cent for it lol

 

Such "defaced" coins are often worth much more after the "defacing" than before to those that collect those types of things. Here is one that I have. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what the value of this Indian head cent is as shown with the counterstamp vs if it had never been counterstamped?

 

Countermarks and other such defacing can vastly increase the value. This is an already-valuable as of Galba, issued in 69 AD. It was recarved in the fifth century by the Vandals (appropriate, eh?) with the characters XLII, revaluing it at 42 nummi. Incredibly historically important.

 

I dunno,,,do those coins come complete with the corrosion?

 

They were probably already corroded when they were defaced, at least with the ancient one. After being issued in 69 AD, probably lost before 100, it remained underground until around 500 AD, before being rediscovered and 'defaced'.

 

Ardatirion, I really like the historical context of that "Vandalized" coin. :thumb:

 

As others have mentioned there IS a market for counterstamped coins.

Somehow I feel this one is not worth bidding on BUT

SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED!

 

Has anyone thought of offering full value?

That's one cent, with free shipping, of course.

 

I find this coin incredibly interesting..even more so with the "time stamp"
carved on it centuries later..

 

$3,000 to $5,000 but that stamp has an interesting history to it. The one on the eBay ad looks like some bumpkin thought it would be neat to put his initials on it. As far as I can tell, the W.C. stamp has no historical value such as the J.B. Schiller seige tokens do.

 

OMG the cent could have been WC Fields....HAHAHAHAHAAA
just jokin'

 

A lot of peeps collect counter-stamped coins but the coin on eBay is just defaced.
Here is a lily counter-stamped 1693 New Sol, the lily signifies the circulation of the coin in the french colonies or something along those lines. Please correct me if I am wrong. The coin or pics do not belong to me. It is Toad's.

 

whatever someone is willing to pay for it?