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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;semibovinian, post: 2922313, member: 76467&quot;]Besides being famous, these coins are long-standing mystery.&nbsp; Nobody knows why they were counterstamped, or when.&nbsp; The &quot;E&quot; and &quot;L&quot; counterstamps are seen on 1815 and 1825 US quarters.&nbsp; They are fairly common.&nbsp; IIRC, they started showing up in numbers some years after after the Civil War, but only on two specific Browning varieties, and usually in high grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more interesting speculations (either Walter Breen or Dave Bowers -- I can&#039;t remember which) was that they stood for English and Latin and were prizes given to school students who excelled in those two subjects.&nbsp; Other theories say they were voting tokens and they were part of the economite hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, there&#039;s no evidence to support any theory -- maybe someone on this forum knows the answer to this puzzle?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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