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Jsalgado Valued Member Portugal 179 Posts	Posted 12/29/2007 09:02 am "M. J. MOSHER" stamped Cent 1852.Any information? JSalgado Report this Post to the Staff

Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 12/29/2007 10:39 am The counter stamp on the coin is someones name and to my knowledge is nothing more than a vanity marking on the coin ,,in all reality it has taken any numismatic value the coin had and made it into a conversation piece. Metalman Report this Post to the Staff
Jsalgado Valued Member Portugal 179 Posts	Posted 12/29/2007 12:37 pm Thanks.JSalgado Report this Post to the Staff
Jaobler Pillar of the Community United States 6384 Posts	Posted 12/29/2007 10:02 pm If I'm not mistaken a lot of contemporary merchants would stamp their company name on coins, turning them into advertising vehicles. Some collectors are heavily into counterstamped coins. If 'M. J. Mosher' is a known counterstamp name then some collectors might actually value this cent more highly than an unmarked example with similar wear. Any counterstamped coin collectors out there with some input? Report this Post to the Staff
magusxxx Valued Member United States 306 Posts	Posted 12/30/2007 09:58 am I was going to ask about merchant counterstams as well. I was lucky enough to get a 1795 large penny with one. Hopefully I'll post the picture this week. Somewhere I heard that merchants would have the stamps put on at the mint. This way he'd tell his customers, "Give these back to me when you want to buy something because I know they're legit." Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 12/30/2007 10:16 am According to this site, there are "MOSHER" and "J.A. MOSHER" counterstamps on record, but no "M.J. MOSHER". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
BRUCE 1947 Pillar of the Community United States 834 Posts	Posted 12/30/2007 2:00 pm Sap. Thanks for the link, this will be a helpful tool at times for some of us Report this Post to the Staff
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