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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 831239, member: 19065"]Guy~ I disagree, counter-stamped coins are coins which have been altered (blatantly damaged in the eyes of the vast majority of numismatists) and thus have lost their original numismatic potential. Counter-stamped coins cannot be graded within the confines of coin grading scales as anything other than damaged or altered. Certainly they are collectible as a novelty amongst novelty item enthusiasts and are kept as a conversation pieces by some coin collectors. I like them and have some myself. Indeed I just happily won two of them in a contest here on CT this past weekend. But just as I mentioned these were novelties you also repeated that they were indeed neat novelties. One would be hard pressed to find much existence of any numismatic premium for these altered coins unless being falsely represented to a less than serious or less than informed buyer who likely overpays for such an item, especially if buying under the impression that they were a coin bearing a numismatic value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 831239, member: 19065"]Guy~ I disagree, counter-stamped coins are coins which have been altered (blatantly damaged in the eyes of the vast majority of numismatists) and thus have lost their original numismatic potential. Counter-stamped coins cannot be graded within the confines of coin grading scales as anything other than damaged or altered. Certainly they are collectible as a novelty amongst novelty item enthusiasts and are kept as a conversation pieces by some coin collectors. I like them and have some myself. Indeed I just happily won two of them in a contest here on CT this past weekend. But just as I mentioned these were novelties you also repeated that they were indeed neat novelties. One would be hard pressed to find much existence of any numismatic premium for these altered coins unless being falsely represented to a less than serious or less than informed buyer who likely overpays for such an item, especially if buying under the impression that they were a coin bearing a numismatic value.[/QUOTE]
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