Who Is Jose Luis Gonzales Of Numisbarreira@hotmail.com?

I could not find anybody in Madrid who knows "Numisbarreira" or his business. As I said in another thread here, the name "José Luis Gonzales" is more or less the Spanish equivalent to "John Doe", so little chance finding a serious numismatist under that name...

Mathieu, I guess you are referring to another other "author" of the articles on counterstamped 8 reales posted on the numisma.org homepage - José Antonio de la Fuente Freyre - who seems to be a real person, but I seriously doubt that he is actually the author of these papers.

I very much assume that this is all one big scam to lend credibility to this counterfeiting operation and its products.

Unfortunately, whenever these pieces show up (on ebay, or lately even in an auction of a Spanish auction house, where the lot was later withdrawn), prices reach extremely high levels, so that it is difficult to get an exapmle for closer study...

New to the forum I have been catching up on old threads. I actually purchased this book myself sometime ago. My interest in the book was due to my focus on collecting Maria theresa Thalers. As you well know Counter-stamped MTT pull in big prices. My problem with the counter-stamped MTTs is that 80% of the counter-stamped MTT for sale that I have examined are fake....identified not by the counter-stamp but by the fact the base coin was struck much later than the period the counter stamp is attributed to. I have even identified the fact to the auction houses who politely ignore my comments and go on to get €500-€2000 for these travesties. I had some communication with Steven Album who ventured the opinion( in the case of MTTs) that these counter-stamps were produced in the yemen when US OIl workers were based there 1950s-60s. Paul Bosco, in his auction catalogue for the Hal Wallis collection of World Trade coins(August 4 1997)States in a couple of places: "Can any one speak for Tim Browder, who has been mentioned in connection with some of these coins during the early 1960s" Paul Bosco is one of a very few( including Steven Album) auctioniers' who highlights the doubts regarding these counterstamps.

swamperbob : not sure how the US copyright low are, but in France at least, any work is by default copyright to its author.
That even include forum posts - which theoretically cannot be deleted without the user consent.
But anyway, that book was made without any traceable infos - so no worries :D (btw, any book publish officially should have an ISBN ... which is not the case)
Now that I think about it, maybe it's possible to contact the company which printed that book ...

I made a scanned PDF copy of this book and sent it around plus posted it in various forums on the internet. I am a devoted collector of numismatic books and very much against any infringement on authors' rights, but in this case I make an exception.

This thing was made to provide credibility to an operation trying to defraud collectors with false counterstamps, just like the articles posted on http://www.numisma.es by somebody under the name of José Antonio de la Fuente Freyre.

(http://www.numisma.es/De_la_Fuente/Freyre.htm)

I hope the "author" comes out and threatens to sue me. That way, we'll find out who he is :-)

I can only hope the ANS will allow a fair warning to be issued. It can't be illegal to print the cover of a book along with a "review", right?

Well, if you print pictures of coins you bought from them ... I don't see the problem.