One Of My Two ANA Personal Purchases
tokenpro
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I had a nice ANA show with a lot of merchandise for inventory both walking up to the table and found scouring the floor. As I was meandering around the bourse a decades-long friend called me over to his table. He knows I like counterstamps on silver and offered me two nice pieces. One I am just starting to research but the other (shown below) is a known quantity, Brunk M-326, a very scarce but not rare Southern c/s. The added extra is that 1859O is not a listed date in Brunk and (I believe) the last year Mr. Wyant is found the the Memphis directories.
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Nice!
Very cool
Latin American Collection
What? No phone number? 😉
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
Neat piece.
Cool! Looks like there's no longer a 137 Main St. in Memphis. 135 S Main is a sushi restaurant and next to it 145 S Main is a steakhouse. 125 N Main is city hall, then a park.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Many of the Southern cities renumbered their streets after the Civil War and sometimes again when streetcars/electricity became prevalent in the 1880's-1890's. New Orleans switched numbers in 1893-94 from older numbering systems that weren't always consistent. Many street names also came and went during the 19th Century.
I was kind of figuring that. Many cities, especially with numbered streets did the same thing. I imagine the use of cardinal directions on streets is also something that came into being later. I suppose a historic map might actually show where this was.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Neat counterstamped half dollar!
Dave
The number is BR-549!
It would be a good research project to find an old map (Libraries usually have them - you know, the information repositories before google) and locate the site, then compare it to the present occupant. That is a project I would have fun with if I had the coin. Let us know if you do the search. Cheers, RickO
From @tokenpro writeup, 1859 may be the final year of operation of the Mayflower Saloon under Wyant, I would assume the coin was stamped new, so the CS coins circulated extensively after the counterstamp, based on the wear it now has.