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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 1885348, member: 22729"][ATTACH=full]320460[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320461[/ATTACH] I found this counterstamp listed on eBay recently and decided to bid on it. I felt that it would go for a good price so I bid accordingly. My max bid was going to be $235.00 and even at that I wasn't sure I'd get it. To my great surprise it closed at only $58.00 so I feel as though I got a real bargain. You just never know with this type of exonumia...sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Although no one has figured out who W.C. Durkee was, it's listed by Brunk (D-628) on one example, an 1803 Large Cent. Mine is on the same date and type of coin so it may be the one he lists or a second example. I did a quick search and came up with a Boston pharmacist with this name from the later years of the 19th century. At this point he's only a possible issuer so I still have a lot of work to do Due to the heavy wear on the coin and the pristine look of the stamp, I feel as though the name was added many years after the coin was minted. It wouldn't be a stretch to date the issue to the 1870s / 1880s or even a bit later. In any case, this is one of clearest and well struck stamps I have in my collection. Now all I have to do is find out who Durkee was. Bruce[/QUOTE]