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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1680135, member: 9204&quot;]Most here are under the impression that countermarks detract from the coin. But, physically speaking, nothing is subtracted. In fact, additional information is actually being added! Your large cent now has a big ugly stamp on it, but know you also know that it was in Albert Albertson&#039;s metal shop in the mid 1840&#039;s. That kind of information is invaluable to a real collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>BRandM, what you do with counterstamps is real numismatics, real research. It&#039;s much better than merely filling holes in a book or entries in a registry. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an ancient that might interest you. It was struck under Titus in the 1st century, but recarved and revalued by the Ostrogothic in the 6th century AD.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Retarrifed_Vespasian_as.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[TABLE=&quot;class: tableb, width: 100%&quot;]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[/TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[TD][/TD]</p> <p style="text-align: center">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [/TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [TD]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <b>ROME. Titus.</b> As Caesar, AD 69-79.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Æ As&nbsp; &nbsp; (20mm, 9.84 g, 6 h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Retarrifed under the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy as 42 nummi, 6th century AD.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Laureate head left; XLII (= mark of value, 42 nummi) carved before bust</p> <p style="text-align: center">Spes standing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt</p> <p style="text-align: center">For host coin:cf. RIC II 1101. For revaluation: cf. Morrisson, <i>Re-use</i> 19; cf. MEC 1, 76 (Vespasian)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Ex Giamba Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 82, 16 September 2009), lot 1139[/TD]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[/TR]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[/TABLE]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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