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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2180282, member: 22729"]This is an interesting counterstamp I bought a couple of weeks ago. Although it's struck on a German States 1-Heller...Frankfurt, I think...it's likely an American stamp. If German issued counterstamps weren't so rare, I might think otherwise. The coin is on a thin copper planchet the size of a U.S. dime. The counterstrikes have misshapen it a little and the area where the date is is covered by one of them. As for the counterstamp itself. It's very small, about the size you'd expect from a silversmith or even a cutler. It's more likely a silversmith issue, though. It doesn't strike me as a "typical" cutler's style. As much as I've looked, I haven't been able to identify Schonfeld. I'll have to pass the picture around to a few other collectors who might be able to identify it. Bruce[ATTACH=full]422052[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]