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Maria Theresa Thaler, Asking $2,800+, Jssc Sharjah 1968 Counterstamp, What Is This?

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Maria-Theresa-Thaler,-Asking-$2,800+,-Jssc-Sharjah-1968-Counterstamp,-What-Is-This?
https://www.ma-shops.com/koci/item.php?id=20810

Found this piece up for sale on MA-shop, and the price the vendor is asking looks pretty outrageous to me. I've searched on the web for whatever "JSSC Sharjah 1968" stands for, but I can't seem to find anything. Seems a little crazy to be asking so much money for a counterstamp that appears to be relatively pretty modern. This piece also appears to be the only example available or known with this specific counterstamp. Have any of you seen this before, and what do you all make up it? Just another online vendor trying to work with a "get-rich-quick scheme" of over-inflating a coin that really isn't worth much over spot? Or is it some very special countermark made by some institution or political regime that left a huge impact on the region it occupied and controlled? In my opinion, I would expect to find this piece in the junk world coin bin, but that's just my uneducated opinion. What y'all think?
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 Posted 12/20/2021  8:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westernsky to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks to me like the Seller is trying to pay for his 2021 Christmas purchases with it!
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 Posted 12/26/2021  8:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add windweaver77 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
People may ask any price they like for their junk...

Doesn't mean you have to pay.
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 Posted 12/27/2021  08:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bjherbison to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's not a counterstamp -- someone ground off a section of the coin and then stamped it. It's a seriously damaged coin.

It would be worth something to someone who finds JSSC 1968 significant, or to me if there was evidence that the modification was done in 1780.
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 Posted 12/27/2021  09:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spyro to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree. A nice old coin, if a little worn, damaged by someone who just wanted to use it as the basis for some kind of medallion that means nothing to most people. Spyro
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Looking at this seller's medievals, I don't see things that are wildly out of line pricewise.

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