World Overstruck Coins - Do You Collect Them?

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gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 12/03/2013 11:13 am I have been hiding away doing a lot of things and this is one of them - I have been cataloging what coins I have in my collection. This is a rather niche market to collect and I just have to get my head stuck in this. Think it's a really really bad habit of mine. For those who don't know what overstruck means, it means using an old coin instead of a fresh new planchet to be struck as a 'new' coin. The result is that it may have traces of the old design under the newly struck coin. Here are some of my favorites: The rest of my collection can be seen here: http://gxseries.com/numis/overstrik...erstrike.htm Please feel free to show some of your awesome overstruck coins! My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff

jfransch Pillar of the Community United States 1801 Posts	Posted 12/03/2013 8:31 pm Gxseries Been collectiong the 960 Reis struck over 8 reales for a long time, your coin has a great host coin, fully identified. Nice! Thank you for sharing. There have been some other threads on these in the past on the forum. Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 12/03/2013 10:53 pm That's an interesting group! I don't think I have any overstruck coins...but there may be an overstruck Sweden coin in my collection somewhere. Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 12/08/2013 02:40 am I do love overstrikes. They can occur more often than the average person knows. I have several nice examples buried someplace in the bank. One of my favorites is an 1899 Mexican centavo struck on a 1943 Mexican centavo. Someplace I also have several MS Yemeni Ahmadi Riyals struck over Maria Theresa restrike Talers with the complete under type visible. I actually bought then for silver without knowing they were overstrikes. The overstrikes of the 1804 English Emergency Dollar struck by Matthew Boulton on Portrait 8 Reales are well known but I have a contemporary forgery of an 1804 Boulton dollar (engraved fantasy dies) that was struck over a contemporary counterfeit Portrait 8 Reales. The traces of the under type are clear and the coin was made that way to assist passing it. One of my rarest overstrikes is a Carolus IIII Portrait 8R of Mexico that bears the KM # 4 counterstamp of British Honduras (the type now known to be a contemporary local stamp) which was overstruck by Brasil as a 960 Reis in 1820. Wild what you can find if you know what to look for. Report this Post to the Staff
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