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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1899874, member: 22729&quot;]Some of the Thies counterstamps also have numbers stamped on them such as No. 40. I don&#039;t know what the numbers represent nor do I know who R. Thies is. You&#039;re correct about it not being the Texas artist named Ryan Thies Jeff. This is usually the bogus information supplied by sellers of these pieces, probably repeated over and over again until it becomes &quot;fact&quot;.</p><p>Many, many of these pieces were found in Nevada casinos in the 1970s and 80s so it was always thought that the source was from that part of the country. The best guess today is that the issuer may have been a man named Richard J. Thies from Reno, NV. Thies was the chief economists of the United States Silver Corp. in Van Nuys in 1972 and sometime in the mid 1970s was Vice President of Security Monetary Systems. Again, this is just a possibility as there&#039;s no evidence directly linking him to the counterstamp.</p><p>BTW, I have an example in my collection also. I paid $15 for it several years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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