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Pillar of the Community
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This is a fun thread. I have a JFK counterstamped penny somewhere around here.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I googled 'letter punch' and got this: http://www.amazon.com/Piece-Alphabe...B002ZJ520C/2Looks like there's plenty of them out there, just letters and numbers, prices are not too bad either.  I saw a set for sale here in Oz about a month ago and they were nearly $50. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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05/24/2013 6:35 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dang it, now Baysinger has a 1976-D bicentennial counter stamp. I can't find em roll hunting and not having much luck on ebay either. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Valued Member
United States
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All- Here's a cent my six year old son found recently- I'm not at all sure where he got it. In addition to the stamp, it looks like someone electroplated it as well:  Oh, and one more from Chile- a 1971 1 Escudo. Not terribly interesting unto itself, though I'd like to think there's some sort of political story behind it. Who knows...  cheers, tbg Edited by thebugguy
05/26/2013 12:32 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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these arent illegal. If you stamped "$5" onto a penny ans tried to pass it as a $5 coin, then you'd have a problem. A better example would be gold plating a 1883 no cent V nickle and passing it off as a $5 gold coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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...or somebody gold plating an 1883 V nickel today and trying to pass it off as a racketeer V nickel.  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's the one (and only) I found.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
500 Posts |
Just pulled this out of a box, not my first counterstamp but the others I have have all been posted here already.  The fact that my family has masons in the tree makes it more interesting that I should find this. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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A 1955 Irish florin counterstamped with "UVF". Almost certainly done in Harland and Wolff shipyard during the 1970's.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2870 Posts |
A Costa Rica 1893 25 centimos counterstamped with 50 centimos in 1923.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here are some of my others.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sorry, I keep doing this, but can we please move this to the Main forum? I mean, now that people have started posting international coins it's completely unfit for an American forum. Here's my contribution:  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The fact that my family has masons in the tree makes it more interesting that I should find this. Mine too, but instead of a counterstamp I found a real masonic penny in an old box in the basement (a big copper token dripping with pointless symbolism). These were apparently swapped between members, and the initials carved in the middle are like a signature. This means that I have some random chump's, and someone out there has my great-grandfather's... if you have a Masonic penny from Alberta or PEI with the initials WLM in some form, I'd love to have a look at it (mine is from Drumheller, Alberta)... |
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 United States
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... can we please move this to the Main forum? Done. The wider variety vould be nice.  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
United States
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Here's my 1925 Stone Mountain commemorative half-dollar with "185" and "TENN(essee)" counterstamps.  Here's my original post about it: https://goccf.com/t/141523Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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