19th Century Advertising

BustDMs

Here are a few of mine. What do you have?

Sonorandesertrat

I enjoy studying counterstamped coins. These circulated as cheaply made storecards, and frequently used Spanish colonial silver coins (right up to the eve of the Civil War). Here is one of mine:

Brunk-1025. Host: 1779 Mexico 2 Reales. This is a fairly common counterstamp. Bradley was active in the 1850s.

A number of merchants, active in the pre-Civil War era, seem to have chosen Spanish colonial coins as the host coins for their advertising. Possible reasons are that these silver coins stuck out in circulating change, or because the merchants bought well-worn Spanish colonial silver coins at a discount.

Sonorandesertrat

Here is another, using an 1812 large cent (S-288) as the host. Brunk J-53 (this coin).

This mark was that of a Boston ambrotypist active in the 1850s, easily identified from contemporary advertisements, broadsides (like this one in the Library of Congress), trade cards, and even surviving images from the studio.

ricko

I find counterstamped coins interesting, but have never collected them. Cheers, RickO

astrorat

Here are some counterstamped double dimes.

habaraca