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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2743452, member: 22729"]I went to the Garden State Numismatic Association annual show yesterday with some guys from my coin club. It's a state wide show, so has a decent number of dealers. It's a mixed bag for me...sometimes good, sometimes bad...so I don't always attend. This year I got a nice counterstamp that I've been meaning to buy for as long as I can remember. These are very common and readily available. I've seen hundreds over the years, but never pulled the trigger until now. It's really a high-end stamp, but for whatever reason never picked one up. This example is exceptionally well struck and nicely centered. Devins & Bolton was a Canadian company that manufactured medicines and chemicals from 1863 until 1880, when Mr. Bolton withdrew. Richard Devins continued the business alone, but it's not clear if he remained in business under the same name. It's been estimated that the company counterstamped nearly 200,000 coins...basically every copper coin that they came across in the course of their business. No D & B stamps are known on silver coins as far as I know. Although a Canadian based company, they counterstamped coins from dozens of countries, but many, many of them from the U.s. Counterstamped Large Cents with their mark are known on hundreds of coins. Thanks for looking. Bruce[ATTACH=full]626790[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]626791[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]