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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 5348216, member: 87737&quot;]Just wanted to show off something a little different I picked up, and also decided not to do a GTG on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1226581[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 1936 Cleveland Commemorative that was counterstamped at the 1997 ANA show held in Cleveland. The Cleveland Commem is quite common, quite boring (IMO), isn&#039;t typically attractive when toned, and really rates way down on my list of favorite commemoratives. So as a commemorative collector, when I saw this, it caught my eye as something out of the ordinary, and just really wanted it to spice things up.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you unfamiliar with the coin, it was struck for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city of Cleveland Ohio to coincide with the Great Lakes Exposition held on the shore of Lake Erie. About the only interesting thing about the coin is the reverse design for its creation of perspective on the surface of a flat coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though dated 1936, they weren&#039;t minted and released until 1937. This was fairly common through the early commemorative series, where coins were pre- or post-dated to coincide with certain events or anniversaries.</p><p><br /></p><p>A total of 50,030 Clevelands were minted (which is about half the number of 1893-S Morgans minted to put it into perspective).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the counterstamp, I haven&#039;t done a lot of research yet, but I doubt there are more then a couple hundred (or less) out there. If any of you have any info on it or the 1997 ANA event, please add as much as you feel inclined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, posting of your Cleveland Commemorative is welcome![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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