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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1272447, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH]139541.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]139542.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Well, this used to be a Franklin Half Dollar but I guess you could call it &quot;hybrid&quot;...coin, token, counterstamp. The history behind this is interesting so I thought I&#039;d post it for everyone to see. In 1985 when the Low Country Coin Club decided to celebrate their 25th anniversary, two rolls of 1960 Franklin Halves were bought, the reverses were planed off and they were counterstamped like you see in the pic. I have a lot of coin-related exonumia including regular issue coins being counterstamped, but this type of alteration is new to me. Just for your info, the piece weighs in at 10.88 gms., whereas a regular Frankie weighs about 12.5 gms. Has anybody ever seen anything like this before? Thanks for looking!</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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