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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TJ1952, post: 2345718, member: 76413&quot;]Counter stamped coins have a long history in the early days of minted coins. Many companies used counter stamping as a method to advertise their company. There are thousands of counter stamped coins some of which carry little value while others command values in the thousands. In any case, these coins were changed after leaving the mint, and are not true error coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Initials were sometime cut into coins. Some of these coins have been classified as &quot;love tokens&quot; having the initials of the person who counter stamped the coin. Below is a counter stamped Lincoln cent with a number 2 in a bar shape outline. This coin was found with some others with personal initials in a 5,000 piece coin bag purchased from a coin show.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LincolnCentCounterStamped.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LincolnCentCounterStamped.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/LincolnCentCounterStamped.jpg/220px-LincolnCentCounterStamped.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Lincoln Cent with Counter Stamped 2[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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