Someone wasn't very peaceful to this Peace Dollar

fivecents

Any ideas on whats up with this? It's a 1923-S Peace $1 with 1915 counter stamped over the date and the rest speaks for itself. It looks like it had another use other than a coin.

Placid

Strange.

Tassa

cosmos66

That is one fugly coin. Maybe the person was born in 1915.

Cam40

Luggage I.D. tag?

And look how good the strike was on it.

Without all the tooling the coin would really be nice.

fivecents

cam40....I guess all that counterstamping and the holes saved it from being cleaned...How Ironic

Skipper53

Ive heard that some soldiers in the Civil War would use coins as
makeshift dogtags. I wonder if it was done during the first World War, too ?


Skipper

It IS a terrible thing to do to a Peace dollar !!!!

Bulldog

Not a great loss, at any amount of stamps and holes. I wonder if that one is on the POP report? Nahh I doubt it...LOL

fivecents

Skipper... A make shift dogtag. That would be cool.
It wouldn't surprise me if someone on these boards identifies it.

Here is another counterstamped coin, no holes this time.

ccr

Have you thought about showing it to someone at your local Historical/Geneology Sociaty ? Looking around on http://www.google.com/ , It seems to dominately bring up the HKH Silk Company which states that it made various products like purses, clothing and the like.

Peaceman

I've seen a few Peace dollars with huge letters punched into the face of them. Obviously someone's initials. If you look closely, the hole on the left looks like it is worn more than the other side. If it hung from the neck, it wouldn't look right....... sooooo.... my educated guess (yea right) is that it was a young womans bracelet from a "speakeasy". She'd use it to compare the one on her wrist to one she'd receive from a trick.....

I should write books......

fivecents

Placid, This coin is very strange...I should have added a warning label to this thread.

Cam40, Back when money was worth alot more, having a dollar as a luggage ID tag might asure that your luggage would be lost.

Peaceman, That is very interesting. I wonder why the date was changed to 1915?

mintluster

very weird

nwcs

<< <i>Ive heard that some soldiers in the Civil War would use coins as
makeshift dogtags. I wonder if it was done during the first World War, too ?


Skipper

It IS a terrible thing to do to a Peace dollar !!!! >>

Yeah, I don't care for defaced coinage. It definitely wasn't used as a dogtag for WWI. WWI was long over when this coin was minted. The speakeasy theory is interesting. But seems awfully big for a bracelet. Maybe it was used as a whatchamacallit for a bolo tie. As one web site put it:

"A Texas-tie consists merely of a leather string which circumnavigates the neck and, on passing through a decorative buckle residing at the centre of the collar, dangles down the chest."

fivecents

nwcs...That would be one ugly bolo tie. I hope it was a bolo tie oppossed to a speakeasy bracelet.

Is there any reference guide on counterstamped coins ?