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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 2210189, member: 22729&quot;]Your &quot;C.T&quot; is a neat old stamp, Rich. There&#039;s actually about thirty examples documented, which makes it fairly common for a counterstamp. Brunk lists it as T-16 and Rulau MAV46F. I don&#039;t suspect the issuer will ever be found. One of those tough initials-only stamps... $20 / $30.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;John Donahue / (Star)&quot; is listed as D-433, but the example he shows has no star. It&#039;s on a 1857 F/E Cent, so is probably the same coin that you have. It may have been reported incorrectly to Brunk. The name&#039;s too common to have a decent shot at attribution, so it might get $30 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;D.A. Jones / 1846 / US&quot; is listed as J-197, but no one has identified the issuer. From the style and legends, though, Jones is likely a gunsmith or posssibly a sword maker. The &quot;US&quot; stamp on a weapon suggests that it were manufactured at a federal arsenal, in this case either Springfield or Harper&#039;s Ferry. The date &quot;1846&quot; would indicate the model year, in this case &quot;Model 1846.&quot; The model 1846 was a percussion rifle which began production in 1842 at both federal arsenals, and continued in production through the Civil War. Apparently, Jones, if he were a gunsmith, would have been employed by the government. Federal contracts were awarded to private gunsmiths as well, but I don&#039;t know if they &quot;signed&quot; their work.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a model 1846 naval cutlass, so Jones may have been a sword maker. It&#039;s been suggested that he could also have been a lock maker, but I don&#039;t think these are lock maker&#039;s marks. Being undocumented, I&#039;d put a value of about $75 on it. If Jones could be identified, then maybe double that estimate.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the most common U.S. counterstamps on silver coins is that of J.M. Taylor. Although it&#039;s not clear what kind of broker Taylor was, he may have been a money seller or currency dealer. I&#039;m not sure about a value on this one. Plenty of them appear on eBay, so you could check past auctions. The scratches distract a bit on this one, but the stamp itself is pretty well struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find out anything about the &quot;W.EL&quot; or &quot;J.M&quot; Do you know what the reference to Syracuse, NY and Pg. 158 refers to? Is the &quot;W.EL&quot; stamp documented somewhere, do you know?</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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