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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 80059, member: 112&quot;]Silver_Dollars - look at the coin again. That design was stamped into the surface not once, which is normal for countermarked coins, or even twice - but 4 times. Two of them are top of one another and there is another, faint, on the outer edge to the right. Then there is the design to the left of the liberty cap - may be a cross, may be anything. But whatever it is it&#039;s not supposed to be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, I do have some specialized books on the coinage of Mexico which includes known countermarks. There is nothing like this in them. Most officially countermarked coinage in Mexico occurred during the revolution. I have never even heard of any from the 1870&#039;s. I didn&#039;t just make my comment rashly - I looked for possible answers even though, based upon what I can see on the coin, I knew there wasn&#039;t likely to be one other than just plain intentional damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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