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Can you identify this countermark?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm hoping for St Croix...


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Andy Lustig

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another possibility: Andres Santa Cruz, President of Bolivia.


    Andrés Santa Cruz , 1792?-1865, president of Bolivia (1829-39). In 1820 he joined the revolutionists against Spain and, as Bolívar 's chief of staff, participated in the decisive liberating battles of Junín and Ayacucho. To achieve his one great aim of a Peru-Bolivia confederation, Santa Cruz, elected president shortly after the resignation of Antonio José de Sucre , energetically set about establishing Bolivia on a sound footing. At the same time he carried on intrigues to foster trouble in Peru and Chile so that his confederation might be realized. When the opportunity came with internal disorder in Peru in 1835, Santa Cruz invaded and established himself as protector. However, at the battle of Yungay (1839) he was defeated by a coalition of his enemies under Manuel Bulnes of Chile and barely escaped to spend the remainder of his life in Europe in exile.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Andy:

    Did you check in World Countermarks on Medieval and Modern Coins? (Brunk)

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Coinages of Latin America and the Caribbean (FURBER) does not show a counterstamp but there is a sentence suggesting that the Danish Royal crowned monogram would have been used... at least starting in 1849

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No clue, but I hope you track it down.

    Are there any books exclusively about countermarks? One wonders. Of course, such a work could never be complete. But it could be helpful.

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never seen this one before, myself. Please let us know what you find.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm reasonably sure the countermark is unpublished. The piece has been in two great collections for the past 20+ years and neither collector was able to figure it out. The auction companies that sold the collections also failed to identify the piece. When it was sold last month, I couldn't resist the challenge, so I bought it.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • GDJMSPGDJMSP Posts: 799 ✭


    << <i>No clue, but I hope you track it down.

    Are there any books exclusively about countermarks? One wonders. Of course, such a work could never be complete. But it could be helpful. >>



    Bachtell has a rather extensive listing, but his books are not exclusively about countermarks. This one is not in them.
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