A Running Thread Of Chafemasterj's Counterstamped Lincoln Cents.

Thanks JBuck.

Interesting, but that picture makes it look embossed and not incuse?

Very nice!

Glad you stopped in to say hello!

I'm just starting to know what you may be going through. (I just got laid off from work yesterday.)

I agree, very good to hear from you and hope things all work out well soon.

please post up an image of it.

Not too sure how it is possible to make a good impression with the countertop in yet leave the back undamaged. The physics behind implementing a countertop means you have to have rigid support behind the coin or the countertop does not take well. Such as if you put it on a block of wood and hit the punch with a hammer the coin is going to be more readily driven into the soft wood surface, then take a deep countertop design. I often wondered if how they can use leather to make a "Texas "Cent," if using something similar to make countertops might preserve the reverse somehow. But still thinking it would take a lot of experimentation because that punch is concentrating all of the force on a very small area versus hammering on the entire coin between two pieces of leather.