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Message:: [QUOTE="Marshall, post: 2597783, member: 21705"]Just a minor point. This is usually called a counter-strike since it was done after it left the mint. There are some collectors who specialize in these counter-strikes. Overstrikes are usually mint errors when an already minted coin is used instead of a fresh planchet. A few Talbot Allum & Lee coins were intentionally purchased to be cut down for use on Half Cents in 1795. A few were used on Large Cents, perhaps by accident. Both 1795 NC-2s and possibly an S-78 I recently acquired. There may be a few others that I'm not aware of. This is a description from the Holmes Sale of the 1796 NC-7: "...There is a fourth impression from this pair of dies, but it hardly counts as an example of the NC-7 die variety. It is actually a half cent struck over a cut-down example of this large cent variety, and the stemless wreath feature is not present as that part of the design is off the smaller planchet. The significance of the half cent is that it validated the tooled Clapp coin in the ANS as the only known example (at that time) of a distinct variety. Dr. Sheldon listed the ANS coin in his Early American Cents published in 1949 as "NC-6". When he published Penny Whimsy in 1958 Dr. Sheldon was sufficiently skeptical of the tooled coin that he "delisted" the variety, believing it was created by tooling some other known die variety...."[/QUOTE]