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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2436266, member: 112&quot;]Yes. And it&#039;s not just technically, it is factually.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the thing, it&#039;s not damage at all because at the moment that an original is counter-marked it ceases to be that original coin and becomes an entirely new and different coin altogether.</p><p><br /></p><p>To fully understand this consider an over-strike. An over-strike is a preexisting coin that is used as a planchet to mint an entirely new coin, which may, or may not, have an entirely different value. And this over-strike is often done, in fact most often done, by the same country or govt. who issued the original coin to begin with. It is typically done for one of two reasons - it saves them money because they don&#039;t have to suffer the expense of making the planchets; and/or it allows them to make money by increasing the value of the new coin over and above what the value of the previous coin was. But that&#039;s a secondary issue to the one we have at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point here is that when a coin is over-struck the previous coin ceases to exist. It is no longer that old coin. It is the new coin, usually with a new date, and quite often an entirely new design. And often, an entirely new value.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the exact same thing happens when a coin is counter-marked by someone, anyone, with issuing authority. The only difference between a counter-mark and an over-strike are their sizes - meaning the sizes of the dies of each.</p><p><br /></p><p>An over-strike die is the same size as the original coin that has now become a planchet. While a counter-mark die is almost always much smaller than the original coin that has now become a planchet. But in both cases the original coin is struck by dies that change the design and often the value.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also have to understand that it is much cheaper for the issuing authority to use the counter-mark method because it obviously costs less money to produce small, little dies of a random size than it does to produce large dies of a very specific size.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, in every case, when a coin is &quot;officially&quot; counter-marked an entirely new coin is created and the old coin ceases to exist. So a counter-mark can never in any way be considered to be damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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