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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7868872, member: 85693&quot;]Not to be a Negative Nancy, but that Pemba &quot;clove&quot; countermark comes up a lot on eBay on a wide array of host coins.&nbsp; They have been extensively faked, or, maybe faked is the wrong word - as [USER=83778]@Muzyck[/USER] notes, they are usually considered to be &quot;spurious.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>That crowned P.M countermark has to be a modern fabrication; the Portuguese authorities countermarked foreign coins for Mozambique in 1887 (see Krause Standard Catalog - &quot;Decree of March 31, 1887&quot;) and Edward VII came to the throne in 1902.&nbsp; As I seem to recall, thee was only one die used for this countermark and I&#039;ve never heard of a coin dated later than 1887 with the countermark. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of these Mozambique countermarks have been extensively faked - I collected these for a while, but they got too expensive (and too faked).&nbsp; Here are a couple of oddities, British coins countermarked for Mozambique.&nbsp; The shilling has a mount mark at top and I bought it from Karl Stephens.&nbsp; The florin is close in size to the usual rupee countermarked for Mozambique, so it <i>might </i>be legitimate, but it might be a fake too.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1355320[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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