1909-S Indian Cent .... Still Looking For That "special" One ....

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ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4415 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 10:54 am Finally getting around to taking pics of my counterstamped Indian and Flying Eagle cents, I am. While my focus has long been to collect ones display meaningful, attributable counterstamps, I thought it would be a challenge to piece together a date set. Of course, that meant compromising my counterstamp standards, so as to accept some coins that had maverick or unattributable marks. To date, I've acquired all dates, 1857-1909, but one, the 1909-S. Some years ago, I acquired the below 1909-S Indian. It came in a flip that said it was recovered from a fire in Brandon, Oregon. It's understandably quite dark, so I had to lighten, enhance the pics. IMHO, it's definitely a candidate for the worst specimen known. My thought was that, if I don't manage to acquire a counterstamped one from "days of yore", I might stamp this one, myself .... I'm on the fence about stamping this coin. If I do, it'd be with small letter punches and just a few words at most, on the reverse, above the mintmark. Not sure as yet what, if anything I'd stamp .... Any thoughts, pro or con, would be appreciated, Report this Post to the Staff

westernsky Pillar of the Community United States 7617 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 11:23 am It's your coin and what you do with it is your business. To give it some meaning, to you anyway, I think I'd go with the words "Last One". At least those words would have significance to you. On a side note I once saw a rolled out cent from an early West coast exposition....yep, a 1909-S Indian! The dealer wanted like 25$ for it....I passed. It was a long time ago and out of my budget. Report this Post to the Staff
ExoGuy Pillar of the Community United States 4415 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 11:51 am @westernsky .... Funny you mentioned "Last One." That was one of my original thoughts, along with my initials or ExoGuy. Then, perhaps some future owner/collector might stumble upon this thread. Report this Post to the Staff
nss-52 Moderator United States 54280 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 12:30 pm I vote for "NSS". LOL. Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 12:59 pm I don't think a C/s would hurt this a bit. ExoGuy would give it some "pedigree". Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 09/17/2017 4:39 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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1909-S Indian Cent .... Still Looking For That "Special" One ....