Impulse Purchase: Counterstamped Liberty Nickel

Meltdown

I thought this was pretty cool when I saw it at the shop today...
Anyone recognize the counterstamp? It looks very antique to me... the hole does as well.

pakasmom

I don't recognize it, Brian. But SavoySpecial might.

seanq

The undertype appears to me to be a Liberty nickel, not a shield nickel, I can clearly see the top of the head under the L.


Sean Reynolds

Flatwoods

<< <i>The undertype appears to me to be a Liberty nickel, not a shield nickel, I can clearly see the top of the head under the L.


Sean Reynolds >>

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>The under-type "appears" to me to be a Liberty nickel, not a shield nickel, I can clearly see the top of the head under the L. >>



i agree

Meltdown

Do'h - Liberty nickel it is... my mistake.

PerryHall

Looks like someone in a machine shop with too much spare time used a letter punch to create himself a pocket piece.

Meltdown

<< <i>Looks like someone in a machine shop with too much spare time used a letter punch to create himself a pocket piece. >>




A long time ago possibly. The hole punch looks pretty old to me. Isn't there a reference book of counterstamps somewhere?

AnkurJ

I think it's pretty cool!

PerryHall

<< <i>I think it's pretty cool! >>



Buy some old coins and a letter punch set and make your own.

OldEastside

<< <i>
Anyone recognize the counterstamp? It looks very antique to me... the hole does as well.


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Are you suggesting LordM has something to do with this coin?

Steve

Meltdown

<< <i>Are you suggesting LordM has something to do with this coin?

Steve >>




He may want to have smoething to do with it after he sees it.

savoyspecial

has the look of a tool check to me......we will likely never know for sure

lordmarcovan

It's a Libnick fer sure.

Don't know if you'll be able to track down the counterstamper, as that appears to have been done with generic letter punches. Maybe just some guy's initials. In fact, it could be a crude sort of "industrial" love token of sorts. Interesting.

I partially buy into savoyspecial's "tool check" theory, though I would think if that were the case, it would have some kind of number on it.

Think I'm gonna say it's an odd, masculine sort of love token, done by a guy with "L.M.C." initials.

Oh! Hey! I think I remember doing that one, back in my younger days when I worked in that factory in NC. "Lord Marcovan (is) Cool".

Yeah. That's what it stood for.

Meltdown

Well, it fits well in the ol candy dish.

Swampboy

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Wow!
Now I don't feel as geeky.

Well maybe as geeky but not as lonely.

Meltdown

Haha Gil. Don't sweat it too much, geeky is the new cool.

Barberian

Love the candy dish, particularly the Iowa and the British half penny.

lordmarcovan

You candy dish people are my kind of geeks. Those are neat.

Meltdown, I'd say yours has desktop background potential. D'you use it as such, or if you have a numismatic desktop picture, do you put your "bigger guns" on it?