Counterstamped 1892 Columbian Half

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• Tootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 1:33AM

  Here's your photo:
  
  

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• GMan Posts: 790 ✭✭

  September 20, 2006 1:36AM

  Thanks! All I had handy is this cheapo scanner and I don't really have a place to easily host images. Mucho gracias!

  GMan

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• JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭

  September 20, 2006 1:39AM

  

  -George
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• PerryHall Posts: 47,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 2:16AM

  That's not a counterstamp. Its an engraving. Two different things.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,255 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 2:25AM

  Probably somebody got married or was born on that date and the coin was engraved as a memento. Could have been carried as a pocket piece or just circulated. Columbian halves circulated here in Chicago well into the 1950s.
  TD

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• ajaan Posts: 17,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 2:26AM

  July 1, 1914, right before the outbreak of WWI. Looks like it came from Europe. Interesting.

  
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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 7:41AM

  Cool!

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,255 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 20, 2006 9:40AM

  
  
  << <i>July 1, 1914, right before the outbreak of WWI. Looks like it came from Europe. Interesting. >>
  
  
  
  In America 1-7-14 is January 7, 1914. You read it Month-Day-Year.
  TD

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