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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 634905, member: 6370&quot;]They are coins thus they are classified as numismatic pieces. They are indeed modern hobo nickels carved by a guy who carries on that tradition in a spectacular way...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Numismatic: of, pertaining to, or consisting of coins, medals, paper money, etc.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Exonumia: items, as tokens or medals, that resemble money but are not intended to circulate as money.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Under these definitions, not only are these hobo nickels numismatic items, so would be the counter stamped penny. If you choose to define numismatics differently and narrow the definition to exclude an altered coin, that&#039;s fine but I think its clear that these are coins, hobo nickels would be under the Exonumia category and the counter stamped coin is still a coin and again, in many cases, worth well over the original coins value. Counter stamped coins go as far back as ancient Greece, if you collect counter stamped coins or altered coins, you are still collecting coins, it is still numismatics. Thus an altered coin like a hobo nickel or a counter stamped Spanish Reale have numismatic value...not worthless in the least. I have never seen a person judge a counter stamped ancient coin from Greece or a counterstamped Spanish Reale as &#039;numismaticly worthless&#039; because of the counterstamp, in fact I have never seen them say they were even diminished in value because of it....and in fact many people would see such coins as even more interesting.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you are a collector? Collector of coins? that is what a numismatist is:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Numismatics: the study or collecting of coins, medals, paper money, etc</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>these are coins...they are altered coins, but coins all the same...There is a long history of counterstamping and altering coins, it is about as old as coinage itself and well within the field of numismatics...at least IMO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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