1819 Bust Quarter Counterstamps: 200 Year Anniversary
1TwoBits
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Since there are only four Browning varieties for 1819 bust quarters, it's been a few months since the Browning 4 post I made in April.
How about some bust quarter counterstamps from 1819. If you have one, post any bust quarter counterstamp or any counterstamped coin from 1819.
1TwoBits
From Brunk's listing, it says that Nathaniel Whitmore was a gunsmith in Sutton and then Mansfield MA. It is mentioned that there is another stamp used by he and his son, Nathaniel Gilbert that they put on their guns: N. & N.G. Whitmore. It is reasoned that the N. Whitmore stamp is the stamp of the father.
H. Brown is listed in Brunk, but there is no detailed information and it is only listed as being stamped on an 1819 large cent. It's interesting that this new piece is also a coin dated 1819.
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I don’t own a Bust quarter counterstamp, but I think I would like to own one someday. It’s really neat when one of them has a counterstamp from the 1850s or 1860s, because it proves that Bust quarters still occasionally circulated despite the fact that their intrinsic value was greater than their face value.
I thought I had something among the c/s in the office & turned up this old warrior, T. GASKIN c/s on both sides of an 1819 25c, Brunk G-122 but only listed on a Guatemala 1826 8 reale, slightly holed & discretely filled.
I found another lightly circulated piece in a newp box -- J.A. NOBLE c/s on an 1819 25c, Brunk - not listed:
These are the only two counterstamps I have...Cheers, RickO
Have had two 1825 "L" counterstamp quarters, one of them I think GC sold. One service straight grades no problem "E" and "L" counterstamp 1815/1825 quarters, the other does not. https://coins.ha.com/itm/bust-quarters/1815-25c-e-counterstamp-au58-ngc-b-1-r1-quarters-dated-1815-and-1825-are-both-known-with-e-counterstamps-and-l-counters/a/414-1077.s
Nice!
Thanks for posting those @tokenpro , it's nice to see some more bust quarter counterstamps, and 1819's to boot! Those are great, especially the "discretely filled" T Gaskin.
Thanks for posting your counterstamps @RickO1 , those are interesting too, and I love @ricko pictures.
Here is another of my 1819's:
1TwoBits
Here’s an interesting one that just sold on Great Collections:
https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/739144/ND-c1859-61-Baltimore-Maryland-Kunkels-Opera-Troupe-Counterstamp-on-1820-25-Cents-M-MD-86D-NGC-G-4