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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 80596, member: 283&quot;]I&#039;m with GD on this. There is nothing new about coins being `stamped&#039; for fun or indeed for commercial purpose. What would be `new&#039; is some sort of book on them. Sadly such a book doesn&#039;t exist because there were so many and they are relatively worthless. When we come across coins like this we just have to say `don&#039;t know who. don&#039;t know where, and don&#039;t know why. But it sure isn&#039;t anything official though.&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s (what I believe to be) one such example. It&#039;s had me scratching my head for years trying to figure out where the c/s&#039;s on the obverse were&nbsp; from.........see if you can make anything of it. Sure, they look like they could be from at least two places going by `similar to&#039; known counterstamps.....but (?) .&nbsp; By the way just to add a touch more mystery to it, there are two chinese chop marks on the reverse which are recorded in FM Rose&#039;s book. So it did circulate in the Far East.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2.myby.co.uk/stuff/chops1obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2.myby.co.uk/stuff/chops1rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My own conclusion is that it was some kind of ranch coin (?) The Double `C&#039; perhaps? As in `Move awn &#039;lil dawgies&#039;&nbsp; n&#039;all that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, I could be wrong......;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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