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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 2584924, member: 1101&quot;]Bruce - glad to have the details on the Bil-Mar coin. I was after one for some time and finally snagged one this year.&nbsp; (Now if you can only dig up the issuer of another English large cent I have - an early 1900s coin that is stamped &quot;Tis an old rye&quot; beneath the portrait. As far as I know that one is still an intriguing mystery.)</p><p><br /></p><p>2016 also saw one of my dream counterstamps being added to my collection - a 19th century French 10 centimes with the common PEARS&#039; SOAP counterstamp AND the EMPIRE THEATRE/ IMMENSE SUCCESS counterstamp all on the same coin. (It is the less common two-line version, no less).&nbsp; There was apparently so much counterstamping of copper coins in England in the second part of the 19th century that they were running into previously counterstamped coins.....&nbsp;&nbsp; ( I don&#039;t have pics but will post some at some point). </p><p><br /></p><p>On a personal note, a couple months ago when I was doing some counterstamping of my own and when I broke open a roll of new nickels and I found a 2016 nickel that was an &quot;in the collar, flipped over, double struck&quot; coin.&nbsp; That is the most valuable version of a double struck coin, worth around several hundred dollars, but it somehow got even better: the first strike was dated 2015 and the second strike was dated 2016. I was told by some error experts that a coin like that, although not unheard of, is beyond rare and is worth between $2000 and $3000.&nbsp; Yikes - it was seconds away from being counterstamped....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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