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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 2009954, member: 1101&quot;]To add what I know about the Maringer coins:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The NML/NMW dies were also used by at least two associates of Maringer in addition to him.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>NO OIL WAR mintage was supposedly just under 800. I had not heard of them until I stumbled on the last lot of 100 that he was selling on eBay some years ago. I paid dearly for them but the auction included a few unique coins (nickels of different dates) and also the last few coins struck as the obverse die was failing, up to and including the last coin struck when the die finally broke. As far as I know, all of these were struck with the eagle die on the reverse – he needed something there to offset the pressure from the obverse die.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You are correct on the Maringer connection to the others: dollar coins with “No War For Oil&quot; with a small St. Gaudens $20 gold piece stamp on the reverse; &quot;End The Fed&quot; with &quot;Ron Paul / 2012&quot; on the reverse was made for an associate (but Maringer also struck a few), and I believe/assume that he also made the &quot;FSP&quot; stamps as they were used by the same person. That person also had a set of dies that were much more basic in design that he may have made himself (?) that he used on a few coins that he sometimes gave away with orders for the other coins he sold; the design is a bit indecipherable. Most of his work was done on nickels but he also did a few dollar coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the NO WAR FOR OIL dollar coins, I jumped on those when Tom Maringer first listed some and also arranged to send him rolls of the first several Presidential dollar coins – he stamped them up and kept half and returned half to me. I did not see them online for long – I am not sure if he lost interest or if something happened to the dies. He also sent me a small pile of the information cards that he put in the empty side of the plastic flip when he sold them and he told me to feel free to list a few myself (I have not done so – not yet anyway). I am always on the lookout for new counterstamps by him but he has a lot of other inetersts and projects that consume his time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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