An 1864 Two Cent Piece With A Patent Medicine Counterstamp .

It's strange that his grave stone doesn't show his date of birth, but does mention that he lived for 67 years, 6 months and 2 days. From that information, I guess a mathematician could figure out his date of birth by counting backward -- including leap year days of course.

@ kbbpll .... Thanks for the headstone. I've often included pics of them in my c/s articles. I hadn't yet gotten around to looking for Goodwin's. His G.G.G. & G.G.G.G. which I have on a variety of host coins will be the subject of my next post. Stay tuned!

BTW, kbbpll, you seem to have the making of a diehard c/s collector, like CaptainRich & me.




Hey jbuck .... Do you stay a-WAKE at night, thinking uo comments like this?

I have no idea if that's the same Charles H. Goodwin as the counterstamp but Exeter and the timing lines up. It actually says 67 years, 5 months and 2 days. The math is wrong then for that birth date May 15 1829. Adding 67 years gives you May 15, 1896, but from there adding 5 months would be October 15, then plus 2 days October 17, 1896. I can't figure a way to get Nov 2 1896 out of that. Does it matter? No. I just like digging into this stuff when I'm bored, which is a lot.


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This is such a great thread.