Cool 1836 Bust Half With Date Counterstamps

JadeRareCoin

Here's a really neat coin that I recently acquired. It's an 1836 lettered edge bust half with 3 obverse counterstamps: 1840, 1841 & 1846.

Admittedly, I know very little about counterstamps, although I enjoy them a great deal. Here's my theory regarding the 3 counterstamps on this coin: A father received this 1836 Bust Half upon the birth of his first child. He had 3 more children; one each in 1840, 1841 and 1846. He perhaps worked in a factory where he had access to numerical punches, which he used to stamp the year of birth for his 3 subsequent children. Now if I were really good, I could tell you the name of each child by examining the punch details with a microscope.

What's your theory?

dorkkarl

my theory is, he probably wore out a couple of typewriters to make that happen!

K S

JadeRareCoin

my theory is, he probably wore out a couple of typewriters to make that happen!

JrGMan2004

Good theory Dennis

JadeRareCoin

......or, maybe each member of a secret organization had a Bust Half and they would stamp the date on their coin each time they attended the annual secret meeting? Maybe this belong to one of the founding fathers of the Bust Half Nut Club?

JrGMan2004

Maybe it belonged to a Mass murderer keeping count of how many people he had killed? Or maybe it's just someone keeping track of how many Bust Halves they had in a jar, using that one as a count keeper, until replacing it with another...

CapAnson

Or possibly whoever owned it worked at some factory where they had to stamp metal with varying dates and whoever used this one as a test..

grip

The only three years he had S-- with his wife

Trooper

His kids initials are on these Flying Eagles....His Kids

grip

Cant be,the last initial are different

keets

hey Dennis

did you notice that the "8" in the date 1846 is upside down??

al h.

Trooper

Cant be,the last initial are different

The coins(FE's) were owned by a woman who had a couple of husbands?

grip

At that time they had mistresses

relayer

Dang, you're good. Can you decipher the meanings on Airplanenut's PO1 coin?

JadeRareCoin

did you notice that the "8" in the date 1846 is upside down??

Keets, you are the first forum member to correctly indicate that the "8" is indeed upside down. I guess that everyone else is sleeping tonight. This upside down 8 error is yet further evidence in support of my theory regarding the purpose of the counterstamps.



Can you decipher the meanings on Airplanenut's PO1 coin?

Just a guess, but I would say that Jeremy got a "C-" on one his final exams just before submitting his bust dime to ANACS.

Varlis

Neat.

kieferscoins

<< <i>Just a guess, but I would say that Jeremy got a "C-" on one his final exams just before submitting his bust dime to ANACS >>



Actually we talked about making a coin like this with a special ANACS slab label full of bad descriptions. he made this coin to sell to me but when it came back from ANACS with the specil label he wouldn't sell it

Cameron Kiefer

Blade

Cameron or Jeremy - What does the label say?

holed, grafitti, AT, cleaned, scratched, butt ugly?

JrGMan2004

holed-scratched-cleaned-graffiti-tooled... I think

JadeRareCoin

holed-scratched-cleaned-graffiti-tooled... I think

Sounds like one of MadMarty's submission results...........

dorkkarl

do those dates happen to coincide w/ the earliest known sightings of crop circles?

K S

snapmohr

All of your ideas were hysterically funny I love the "how many times he had sex with his wife" one!! Does anybody actually know for sure what counterstamps are and where the come from or are all these coins the mystery of the century? Just wondering if there are any real facts about these type of coins?
great info always wanted and appreciated
thanks all
snapmohr

kranky

<< <i>hey Dennis

did you notice that the "8" in the date 1846 is upside down??

al h. >>



I noticed that as well. One time on a trip we came to a stop sign with a little "3-way" sign underneath it. I mentioned to my wife that the "3" was upside down on the sign. She said, "Only you would notice something that strange." So I have learned to stifle myself on such issues.

The upside is, I can tell her that I'm not the only one who would notice - keets would too!

dorkkarl

actually, i don't think the 8 is upside down. i think all the other digits are.

K S

JadeRareCoin

dorkkarl, I think that you are upside down!