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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 406825, member: 11521&quot;]Welcome to CoinTalk.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It would be nice if you could post a pic. But it sounds like your coin was counterstamped. There were various reasons to counterstamp a coin - advertising was one reason but a single letter would not be an effective form of advertising. Some people counterstamped coins with their initials.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is safe to say the Mint did not counterstamp this coin. And they did not stamp it to denote it is too light. If the coin had been too light (and this fact was known) it would not have been allowed to leave the Mint. It would have been melted and recoined.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Many coins with counterstamps will not be graded by the major grading services. An exception is the Trade Dollar which was routinely counterstamped in China as their way of saying the coin had the indicated amount of silver. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Post a pic of your coin if you can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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