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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1418150, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH]172528.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]172529.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]172530.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t posted on this thread for quite awhile but not because I haven&#039;t acquired anymore political stamps. I mentioned earlier that I made the acquaintance of an Irish collector sometime ago who was disposing of his father&#039;s collection of &quot;unusual coins&quot; as he called them. They&#039;re actually all political issues, but all unusual and some may even be unique. While I&#039;ve seen pictures of some of them, I haven&#039;t actually gotten any coins yet other than 11 pieces I bought from him last year. Anyway, I&#039;m not giving up on getting the rest, or at least descriptions or pictures of them. I believe he has at least 20 more counterstamps and maybe more.</p><p>&nbsp;The Australian coin I&#039;ve posted a picture of was bought from a dealer in Melbourne, Australia a month ot two ago, and may be a &quot;sympathy&quot; counterstamp in support of the Irish Nationalist movement. There was a strong nationalist movement in Australia as well dating back to the mid to late 19th century, but there was little or no violence attached to their effort to free themselves from British rule. There were known attempts by the IRA to influence the Australian movement, but generally they met with little success. Still, there were those who supported their Irish brothers with financial and moral support. These crossed IRA stamps applied over the portrait on this coin is reminiscent of those stamps struck by the Irish Nationalists over the face of the reigning monarch to deface it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;foreign&quot; counterstamped coin isn&#039;t mine, but it may be a political stamp as well as it has the &quot;look&quot; of typical politicals. I haven&#039;t been able to determine what it means if it is a political statement, but it&#039;s interesting nevertheless. Any comments would be appreciated. As always, thanks for looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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