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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3128101, member: 10461"]It was meant well, and not so much bad info - it's just that certain official counterstamps on this kind of stuff changes the whole ballgame. One has to be pretty specialized to know about these issues. I have only a vague notion about <i>some</i> of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holey_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holey_dollar" rel="nofollow">Here's another instance</a> of where the Brits took some liberties with a Spanish 8-reales coin (or pieces thereof), counterstamped it, and made it legal tender in some of their territories.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can imagine, these things are popular and in demand with collectors now, and worth far in excess of what a regular old cut, damaged, or merchant-marked coin would be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Small wonder people have taken to creating false counterstamps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3128101, member: 10461"]It was meant well, and not so much bad info - it's just that certain official counterstamps on this kind of stuff changes the whole ballgame. One has to be pretty specialized to know about these issues. I have only a vague notion about [I]some[/I] of them. [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holey_dollar']Here's another instance[/URL] of where the Brits took some liberties with a Spanish 8-reales coin (or pieces thereof), counterstamped it, and made it legal tender in some of their territories. As you can imagine, these things are popular and in demand with collectors now, and worth far in excess of what a regular old cut, damaged, or merchant-marked coin would be. Small wonder people have taken to creating false counterstamps.[/QUOTE]
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