Modern Nickel Counterstamps, No More Lies

I don't have the FSP ones, but I have lots of the NML and ETF ones. PM or email me. The pics are of exceptionally nice selected ones, they vary a lot. A collector would want at least one roll to pick through for the nicest ones... then just spend the rest to do your part for the project.
Tom

A fine, upstanding memeber here just helped me find a counterstamped (Ron Paul)
nickel, and asked for no repayment. So in order to pay it forward, I am going to
give away a similar trinket as a 'contest'. Something of interest to the newbies
or our youth members.

Thanks Earl!

Two rolls... cool! So now you have the opportunity to assist in the effort. The whole point is to get them into circulation. So go through and pick the 10 or 12 that you like the best for keepers, and then spend the rest. Aside from using them as ordinary pocket change you can:
* Leave them in the penny change trays at gas stations and convenience stores.
* Leave them in coin-return slots on vending machines and payphones.
* Drop them on the street or in other odd places where somebody might notice them.
* Donate as cheap door prizes at coin shows.
* Give them to people and point out the problems of the FED, use it as an opening to a discussion.
* Come up with new and creative ways of getting them into people's hands.
I know what the vendor is charging for these... and it's very very CHEAP!! It's essentially a subsidized effort with the goal to put the message out into the universe where it might be seen and cause some key person to have a thought that they might otherwise not have had. So you can either take advantage of the generosity of the seller and keep them out of public view, or you can accept your part in the effort and get them out there.

Definitely illegal to do this in Australia.
"It is a criminal offence under the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 (Cth) to deface or destroy current Australian currency coins. It is also an offence to sell or possess current coins that have been defaced. Defacing a coin includes coating the surface of the money with any sort of material. The penalty for defacing coins , or selling or possessing money that has been defaced, is $5,000 or imprisonment for two years for an individual (or both), and $10,000 for a body corporate. You may also be guilty of the offence of making counterfeit money if you alter a genuine coin." http://www.ramint.gov.au/designs/ra...ns/using.cfm

Pity, could be a lot of fun to come up with additions.

Jeff

Interesting... I thought it was all about the defacement of her august majesty. We sorta decided a long time back that we weren't going to do the royalty on the coins thing. I think that allowing "coin novelties" was a sort of protest against the sort of thinking that wants to make something so simple illegal.

Well... the fun is that we can play with US coins pretty much all we want... and we can probably do Euro stuff too. Might be interesting. And I suppose we could counterstamp Australian coins all we want... as long as they stay out of Australia. Would a photo of a counterstamped Australian coin be illegal there? I can see it now... an Aussie coin with the counterstamp "I can't go home" on one side and "Coin in Exile" on the other. Circulate the image... have the coin appear in photos of different cities worldwide, seeking asylum.

Congratulations MoFlea!

We just got the press back in the shop, it had been away in storage for several years.

Seems like the NO MORE LIES slogan is even more appropriate now than ever. We still have some rolls of old ones, and the dies are still in decent shape.

If there were anybody local that wanted to stomp some nickels, we could set you up.

That's because every two years all the Congressmen and a third of the Senators are up for re-election. That's 465 elected liars trying to outdo 465 liars that want to replace them.

I was directed to this thread via another and found it really interesting. Being a counterstamped Lincoln Cent collector the nickels really 'talked' to me. Sounds like this gentleman has a multitude of setups that he can gear up at any time.