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Message:: [QUOTE="Guy Chamberland, post: 2543964, member: 82434"]I think in the first part he lists only those C/Ms which can be attributed to a country with reasonable certainty. In the index (second part), most C/Ms are know from one or two coins, which is not enough in most cases to know in what country it was countermarked. In this article, <a href="http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/Cobourg/0000487051T.PDF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/Cobourg/0000487051T.PDF" rel="nofollow">http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/Cobourg/0000487051T.PDF</a> he mentions the case of J.W. Millar, who C/Med only US silver coins. We wouldn't know he was Canadian if he had not added "Toronto" with a second punch. In addition, most C/Ms in the index part were sent to him by collectors from all over. He points out that there is, in his estimation, an approximate rate of 5% errors in the C/Ms reported to him (letters missing or misread, etc.). And as a matter of fact, I just got one which was read "J FINLAY" by the dealer, but there is a clear trace of an "S" on the rim, so it's actually "J FINLAYS". Without "S", I would say it is in Brunk, but with the "S" it is actually unlisted.[/QUOTE]