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https://www.ebay.com/itm/322029945681 I found this cool counter stamped silver Ike. I thought it was cool but starting bid way over my maximum. Has any one seen others like it or know why it was done? Looks like a lot of time was spent preparing it. It's a 1971 silver proof Ike  Edited by Bertensgrad
03/08/2016 4:13 pm
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Definitely more than I would want to spend, but still and interesting find.
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Yeah the highest I would go would be $20 free shipping lol
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Ouch - way too high for my tastes. Besides, this counterstamp killed one of my favorite parts of the Ike dollar design. Interesting though... |
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Sorry, but that is a waste of a perfectly good coin. Ymmv
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I would guess that they had a booth at the Olympics and you could get YOUR coin stamped for a fee sort of like the elongated penny machines at Mount Rushmore and Disney Land etc.
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Maybe butseems too convient that a uncirculated proof silver coin is stamped. Maybe they just stamped like a series of 100 off and sold them as souvenirs as like a fundraiser or just profit.
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Maybe butseems too convient that a uncirculated proof silver coin is stamped. Maybe they just stamped like a series of 100 off and sold them as souvenirs as like a fundraiser or just profit If you, as a collector, were at the Olympics for a week and saw a coin stamping booth and you didn't have any cool coins in your pocket wouldn't you go into town and find a coin store and pick up a nice one to get stamped? I would have thought that if they were made up ahead of time that whomever did them would have used a year that had some relevance such as 1972 or 1976 which were also Olympic years. Edited by jack jeckel
03/08/2016 9:35 pm
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Interesting counterstamp and much larger and more prominent than most I'm used to seeing.
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These countermarks were not souvenirs stamped at the Olympics, nor were they purchased on site during the games. Collector Mel Wacks has been producing interesting pictorial counterstamped coins for many years, usually with mintages of a thousand or less. They are very popular among counterstamp collectors, and Mel continues to periodically issue new themes. If you search the CCF site for the name WACKS, you'll find numerous threads about the counterstamps he designs, produces and sells. There's even a pdf catalog online showing all the counterstamped coins he has designed: http://www.tokenandmedal.org/Journa...el_Wacks.pdfEdited by captainrich
03/09/2016 09:45 am
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Neat. Kinda looks like a "poor mans" Carr  |
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If you, as a collector, were at the Olympics for a week and saw a coin stamping booth and you didn't have any cool coins in your pocket wouldn't you go into town and find a coin store and pick up a nice one to get stamped? Maybe.  |
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Thanks, CaptainRich for your exact definition. I learned something new - YAY!
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For me ... If I could get $20 to $50 each for coins like this .. I would have me a stamp made.  |
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They're proud of it. Interesting for sure.
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Now that I think about it, besides jbuck's avatar, this is the only counterstamp I've seen on an Ike.
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