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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 26577576, member: 74863&quot;]Counter stamped coins are very interesting and the older the coin is the more interesting the coin becomes. The 1807 Large Cent has several varieties and yours looks like the large fraction. If it was the comet variety it would be a great counter stamped coin.</p><p>I have no idea what the M stands for. These types of marks were applied after leaving the mint, often by a merchant to advertise the business. It could be a maker’s mark using the first letter of the last name. The only M counter stamp on coins that I’m aware of was used on English coins in Britain. Being a 1807 coin it could have been used in Great Britain. The English M counter stamped was for the Abolition of the Slave Trade movement in Britain. More than likely it was a local US merchant advertising his business. You have a nice counter marked Large Cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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