Anyone Else Collect "Counter Stamped" Coins?

I think your smokin Lincoln is one of the more sought after counter stamps

RW1010,
When I found it I knew it was awesome. It was my first Counter Stamp roll hunting. I have many more now, but I often look at it knowing it's the best. I got a 1943 with Abe blowing a bubble like he was chewing bubble gum and another 1943 with a 53 stamped into the Obverse. It is cool just not as cool as Abe puffing a cigar. Whoever did it I give you a high five for that one. It will take something unreal to top it. I got one with the masonic compass stamped three times on one penny. Two on one side and one on the other. It is stamped so hard it concaved the penny like a bowl. Thank you for looking.

My avatar is a counterstamped coin.

Nice! Any idea of how to contact smallforest? Can't find any info on them.

Two50twostroke, your smoking Lincoln reminded me of the whole reason I collect coins today. I still remember it well, and somewhere in my safe, I have the Lincoln Cent as well. Will try and find it and post a photo when I can.

It was in the mid 1970's I was on a trip to the neighborhood hardware store with my Dad for some part or whatever. He got his item and his change when he handed me this cent with a counterstamp of a numeral 7 on it, positioned to look like a pipe coming out of Lincoln's mouth. He said here "You can have this one" and I looked at it with great interest. Now my Dad never collected any coins to my knowledge, though years after my Grandpa (his Dad) passed away he gave me a Morgan silver dollar my Grandpa had carried for awhile as a good luck coin, I still have that one too.

Anyways if not for that interesting looking Lincoln Cent with a counterstamped 7 on the obverse I never would have started holding on to strange coins, like any Canadian cents or other foreign coins, a few years later we were driving home from a long weekend of skiing in the mountains and staying at our condominium there. I always picked up a magazine for the drive home, that time I got a Coinage Magazine, and decided to order a 1/2 pound of wheaties from Jake's Coin & Stamp Ad in the magazine when I got home. The coins came, and I had a blast sorting them out by date and by mintmark as I learned from a pocket coin guide my Mom found at the grocery store checkout stand.

Today I have a small collection of Two Cent coins with counterstamps, though most I come across are too rare and expensive for me to buy anymore, I pick up what I can on ebay or at local shows.

There are some wonderful books (expensive) on counterstamped US coins and other foreign coins by Brunk.

You can see and order them here:
http://richhartzog.com/fs/cm.htm

A much earlier thread on how I met and became friends with Mark Borchardt of Heritage and Bowers fame. I found out he lives near by me and had a copy of Brunk, he suggested we get together to look over some of my counterstamps. A super nice guy and so knowledgeable I've ended up buying a bunch of extra books from his library, making his wife quite happy he says.
http://goccf.com/t/186369

So that's how a counterstamped coin got me started on my numismatic path and another counterstamped coin introduced me to one of the hobby's great minds and led to a friendship.