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<p>[QUOTE="BRandM, post: 1724810, member: 22729"]The general thinking seems to be that a huge number of coins, nearly a quarter of a million, we're stamped in 1884. I don't know what sources were used to determine this, but if it is correct, then any number of punches would have been used for this effort. That would of course lead to slight variations in the stamps even if produced by the same cutter. I'm not aware of a broken "P" variety Jeff, but do know there are some with a period after "Soap" and some without. In any case the shear number of these stamps issued is probably only rivaled by the Devins & Bolton emissions. They were druggists located in Montreal and like Pears issued thousands of counterstamped coins for advertising purposes. Both are from well executed dies but the shear number of both that survive today make them inexpensive to buy. Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BRandM, post: 1724810, member: 22729"]The general thinking seems to be that a huge number of coins, nearly a quarter of a million, we're stamped in 1884. I don't know what sources were used to determine this, but if it is correct, then any number of punches would have been used for this effort. That would of course lead to slight variations in the stamps even if produced by the same cutter. I'm not aware of a broken "P" variety Jeff, but do know there are some with a period after "Soap" and some without. In any case the shear number of these stamps issued is probably only rivaled by the Devins & Bolton emissions. They were druggists located in Montreal and like Pears issued thousands of counterstamped coins for advertising purposes. Both are from well executed dies but the shear number of both that survive today make them inexpensive to buy. Bruce[/QUOTE]
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