Post Your Counterstamped Coins

Nice one, Bruce.

 

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This one isn't listed in Brunk Frank but he does list a G.W. Mackay. Since it looks like part of your stamp might be off the planchet, there might be more letters that we can't see. The Mackay stamp isn't illustrated so I don't know what it looks like. It's on an 1854 S/L Quarter and designated M-68.

Bruce

 

Thanks, Bruce

 

Here is a neat piece that came across my desk today.

 

I love the Costa Rica pieces

 

Here's one I picked up the other day.:

 

The Paul Cunningham, author of "Military Tokens of the United States?"

 

Me too.

 

Here is an oldie & a goodie. The coin has several test cuts and banker's marks. The previous owner put it in the NGC slab. The coin is about 2,400 years old.

 

This 1798 USA cent has "*KIMB" stamped on it.

 

That is a beauty!

 

A nice heavy, clear strike Matt. Love it!

Bruce

 

Yes, the same guy Jack. Paul is a huge dealer in exonumia including military tokens. He sets up at many, many shows, even smaller ones at times. BTW, Ray Bows is putting the final touches on his Vietnam-era military token book. Did you ever get a chance to contact him?

Bruce

 

I recently sold a Flying Eagle cent and a Liberty nickel with counterstamps... I just figured I would let it loose at 99 cents, and was pleasantly surprised at the final hammer price...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/291207604210

 

Here is mine, a 1970 Canadian nickel dollar, with the GAN 1918-1970 stamped on it.

When Gamal Abdel Nasser, then the highly popular President of Egypt, died of a heart attack in 1970, the Arab community in Vancouver, Canada, counterstamped approximately 1000 of the 1970 Manitoba nickel dollars, on the obverse side, just right of the Queen between her shoulder and chin. Nickel coins are quite hard, and the quality of the counterstamp varies considerably in each coin I have seen. I have a couple with double counterstamps and one is graded by a Canadian company at MS-64.

 

I bid on counterstamps all the time on eBay SPP and am sometimes surprised by what they sell for. Generally, I end up paying about what I expect to but other times I get them for, what I consider, a bargain. When I feel that the bids are getting too high I usually just back away and move on.

Bruce

 

Agreed, sometimes they go crazy.

I walk.

 

I got this "Richmond" counterstamp awhile ago but didn't really get a chance to take a picture until now.
This is an early mark of Providence, RI silversmith and watch repairman Franklin Richmond. He was in business from about 1820 until his death in 1869. His two known addresses were 14 High St. and 17 Market St. My example is only the third known specimen. The other two are on an 1819 Large Cent and a 1798 Spanish 2-Reales.
I bought it from Steve Hayden who supplied the provenance. Former owners were Dave Bowers, John J. Ford, and F.C.C. Boyd. An illustrious pedigree for sure. I was happy to add this one to my collection.

Bruce

 

Bruce

Another excellent example

 

One thing I haven't yet seen in this thread, but thanks to a chance find in a roll search just this last Monday is a current circulating coin that has been counterstamped with a then serious political statement:

During the height of the fallout from the Iraq war someone counterstamped coins and circulated them. Unlike other examples of recent coins that were counterstamped to be kept by collectors this one was counterstamped to send out a political message - not just one sided either, but both sides.