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Share yourHouck’s counterstamps or anything else Houck’s
Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
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I have been searching for a reasonably priced one for several years.
BHNC #203
Me, too. I'd like to pay around $100 for a nice one.
What were the ingredients in the Panacea??? They used to put some good stuff in those elixirs.
Cheers, RickO
Opium and alcohol are suspects.
I need to dig up the 1936 Houck's Panacea Centennial parody design I sketched up several years ago.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
25 gallons, rye whiskey
25 lbs. gum guaiac. (A resin obtained from the guaiacum tree, used in varnishes and as a preservative.)
150 lbs. sugar.
1 lb. oil of juniper.
5 oz. oil of lemon
Lance.
@lkeigwin.... Well Lance, I stopped at the rye whiskey....That other stuff could kill you...
Cheers, RickO
Found it. About the farthest thing from a polished design, but it plays into the 1936 classic commems, especially since the centennial was in 1933. The portrait is some 1830s looking charlatan surrounded by everything it cured, if he's a bit gaunt looking, that's just what I happened to draw. The reverse is the ingredients of the elixir (barrel of rye, basket of lemons, bag of sugar), plus the patent number, X7574. The wreath is guaiac on the left, juniper on the right. There's probably room for a small bust half dollar that looks like a counterstamp on the upper reverse.
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Here's a couple of mine...
Houck counter stamped coinage received as payment for his bottles of Panecea for advertising purposes which proves how long foreign silver circulated in the USA.
Most commonly seen on CBH's, but are also known on CBQ's, $1's, and gray/dark side silver which was still circulating at the time.
1835 Capped Bust Quarter, Circa 1836 "Houck's Panacea Baltimore" Maryland, Counterstamp,
HT-140, Rarity-7.
This is a newly discovered date as up until now none have been known dated beyond 1819 on
a capped bust quarter.
1777-PTS Bolivia 2 Reales, Circa 1836 "Houck's Panacea Baltimore" Maryland, Counterstamp, HT-143, Rarity-7.
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1770 B Thaler Houck's NGC XF45.
Lance.
That's quite a combination!