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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 3132455, member: 96174&quot;]Owing to the chronic shortage of silver and the cost of the Napoleonic Wars (1793 to 1815), the British Government counterstamped all sorts of foreign coins with either an oval or octagonal stamp showing the&nbsp; head of George III, usually pieces of eight (8 reales, valued at 4 shillings and ninepence) but also 4 reales - and French and Italian coins. There are also some rare examples of the US liberty dollar being counterstamped.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several photos of counterstamped coins on the internet, and most are listed with values in Spink&#039;s Coins of England[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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