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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 199949, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are counterstamped for many reasons by many people for many reasons, but always after they leave the mint.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We have members who tell of applying counterstamps and then using the coins to make purchases.&nbsp; While I don&#039;t quite grasp the idea behind such conduct, others do, and enjoy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than being the date that a couple of new people joined one of the rock bands, and the date of a Nebraska Sugar Bowl win, Google doesn&#039;t turn up any great historical events for the date, but it meant a lot to whoever applied that post-mint counterstamp to your coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The TV coin hucksters, among others, have been known to gold plate coins to &quot;make them collectible&quot; and artificially inflate the price people will pay (I won&#039;t use the term &quot;value&quot; in that context), and either that, or a high school chem lab experiment, <u>may</u> be responsible for your coin&#039;s color.&nbsp; Copper turns golden in color on contact with some chemicals and that type of tarnish is another possible cause.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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