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<p>[QUOTE="Lawtoad, post: 4699532, member: 31685"]Counter stamps on coins have been used for various things over the years. I have a few that were counter stamped as a love token. It was a common practice in the 1800's to counter stamp coins with one's business name on it as a sort of "store card" to advertise, others have political messages or the like. Some counter stamps were used to authenticate the authenticity of the coin, such as chop marks found on many U.S. Trade Dollars that circulated in Asia. The ones on this cent could be just about anything from a friendship pocket piece to a memorial to a military unit, etc...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lawtoad, post: 4699532, member: 31685"]Counter stamps on coins have been used for various things over the years. I have a few that were counter stamped as a love token. It was a common practice in the 1800's to counter stamp coins with one's business name on it as a sort of "store card" to advertise, others have political messages or the like. Some counter stamps were used to authenticate the authenticity of the coin, such as chop marks found on many U.S. Trade Dollars that circulated in Asia. The ones on this cent could be just about anything from a friendship pocket piece to a memorial to a military unit, etc...[/QUOTE]
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