Cuba Counterstamp on 1957 US Cent

JRW

I have to say that this is the first one of these that I have seen. Any info would be appreciated.

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Tookybandit

Interesting, I like it!

lordmarcovan

Neat piece. I did some headscratching and Googling, but came up empty.

I have no idea what the "IOC" would mean. As to Cuba, the revolution was going on in 1957, but... ?

Very interesting counterstamps.

syl

If anything, I would think that it meant 10 centavos.

lordmarcovan

Ten centavos! Of course. That makes a lot more cents. Um, sense.

I'll bet that's it. I was interpreting that as the letters "IO" instead of "10".

That also would explain why the "C" is punched below the "10".

MrEureka

I know nothing about this piece, but I doubt that any serious countermarking authority would use seven separate punch hits to validate a single piece.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>I know nothing about this piece, but I doubt that any serious countermarking authority would use seven separate punch hits to validate a single piece. >>



This thought occurred to me as well, after I realized it said "10 C" instead of the letters I, O, and C.

Not so much from the number of punches as from the overall "unofficial" appearance of the thing.

Still think it's pretty interesting.

LochNESS

Yeah my first reaction was "could be fake" but then I asked myself, "why would anyone fake this?"

Strange indeed. Worth at least 2¢