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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1098162, member: 19463&quot;]How would one go about determining when a countermark on a token/coin was put on the coin?&nbsp; Recently this one appeared on eBay without making claims beyond what can be seen.&nbsp; Sioux Falls City was in Missouri Territory from 1856 to 1861 when they founded Dakota Territory.&nbsp; I suspect it would take a while for the new small cents to make it to a place that remote so I could see large cents circulating there a while longer than the usual 1857 date.&nbsp; The host coin was 1818 with the last numeral only a best guess but the exact date of the coin means nothing here since any Matron Head would be worn by the time that Sioux Falls (now SD) was founded in 1856.&nbsp; The doubling of the O makes me wonder if each letter was applied separately but I am not certain that the letters that appear more than once were made with the same punches so perhaps the O was loose in a holder when struck???&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea how something like this can be expertised and do not know if the catalogs of countermarked coins even mention this town.&nbsp; Does anyone recognize it as a known fantasy or a known real type?&nbsp; Does anyone on this list collect this sort of thing or do you all just considered it damaged goods?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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