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George IV Farthing With Counterstamps

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This is a George IIII farthing 1822 (km#677). It has four crown counerstamps, two on each side, but I would like to know why.
Were they stamped for use in another part of the British Empire?

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I'd say this is a private CS. First of all, it does not look familiar. Second, with official CSs they needed to stamp hundreds and/or thousands of coins so it usually was one CS per coin. Here it looks like someone was playing with his/her new "toy".
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I may be wrong here, but this crown reminds me of the British crowns stamped into the lockplates of British Enfield Muskets/Rifles. So maybe some one working in the armoury was testing a stamp on something soft before hitting a hardened steel lockplate?

Here is a sight with a few examples of lockplate markings, there are many more!

http://www.victorianwars.com/viewto...?f=21&t=1268
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