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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2130828, member: 22729"]Nice counterstamp wlw. Nice clear stamps on a pretty decent Large Cent. There are two different Stibbs stamps documented. Yours, and another stamped "H. Stibbs". There are additional counterstamps on some of the "H. Stibbs" issues and they include "Savannah, Geo." and "Lovell & Stibbs". It's not clear that the two issues are related. Yours is struck on an 1853 Large Cent, while the other three documented are on 1820, 1827, and 1838 cents. Previously it was thought that they were struck about 1840, but that assumption is obviously wrong. It's my feeling that "Stibbs" and "H. Stibbs" are the same man. Henry Stibbs was a blacksmith and metal worker in the Savannah area c1840s / 1850s ?? Stibbs & Lovell was mentioned in an 1838 issue of the Savannah Daily Georgian but the type of business they were in wasn't noted. If "Stibbs" is unrelated to "H. Stibbs", then he probably hails from Ohio, as it was a fairly common surname in that state. My feeling is that your coin was struck by Henry Stibbs (Savannah) in the mid to late 1850s. Thanks for posting it, wlw. Bruce[/QUOTE]