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Message:: [QUOTE="leeg, post: 3438545, member: 17073"]“Additional information regarding the countermarking of some of the Stone Mountain commemorative half dollars comes to us from C. H. Ohr, Honey Grove, Texas. He says:   ‘I was local chairman selling the coins in Honey Grove, Texas, and I had one coin stamped ‘No. 143,’ the number of my district, and ‘Texas’ also stamped. These special coins were sold to the highest bidders and brought as much as $262 each in one town. There was only one of each particular stamp, and I suppose Tennessee did the same thing as the Texas State Committee.’   This practice, taken in connection with a similar report from Georgia in last month’s issue, and the existence of those stamped in Tennessee, indicates that each Southern State was represented in the intensive campaign to market the Stone Mountain half dollars. In time perhaps quite an array of such counterstamped piece will find their way into collections. It is quite probable, however, that the buyers of these particular coins at auction, for which fancy prices were paid, will prefer to retain them as souvenirs during their lifetime.”5 5 The Numismatist, Countermarked Stone Mountain Half Dollars, July, 1932, p. 455. <img src="https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Book%20Project%20Images/Stone%20Mountain/Auction%20Letter%20%20%203.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]