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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 156718, member: 669&quot;]The counterstamp of a known historical figure might give the coin a collectible value to those who favor that figure, but numismatically it is damage and would get the coin bodybagged by substantially all of the top level TPGs, and most of the lower level ones as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>That type of counterstamp is not in the same category with official and semi-official counterstamps by which governments and rebel groups changed the value of specific issues, and counterstamped large numbers of coins.&nbsp; IIRC there are some Portuguese coins altered in that manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also differs from the so-called &quot;chop marks&quot; of merchants - usually Chinese - applied to confirm the bullion value of&nbsp; many silver coins circulating in the Far East.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW finding one coin with initials counterstamped on it does not say anything about whether it is a unique item, one of several, or even one of thousands.&nbsp; It just proves that the one in question exists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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