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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3554976, member: 101855&quot;]Here is one of the few counterstampled coins in my collection. It is a &quot;Vote the Land Free&quot; large cent that is part of my political collection. The estimated population of these is from 80 to 100 pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]944973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944974[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Doyle DeWitt originally attributed this piece to the 1848 Martin Van Buren presidential campaign. After Van Buren was defeated for re-election in 1840, he ran for the Democratic nomination in 1844. He didn&#039;t get the nomination because he opposed admission of Texas to the Union as a slave state. He ran again in 1848 as the anti-slavery, Free Soil Party nominee. Most of the votes he got were from New York, which was his home state.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some years ago David Bowers’ research indicated that this piece was connected with the Homestead movement, not Van Buren. The Homestead Act was passed years later during the Lincoln Administration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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