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Here is one that is probably a transportation token, but because the message is less clear, one cannot be certain:

What happened was that CP moved the Wanted and For Sale sections to the Members section and so most got reset as unread.

Ah... its the counterstamps that I would like to pursue, I have some Reales that have various Chinese counterstamps that are believed to be merchant stamps... the other 2 attached are British coins counterstamped to be used in other country's so looking to find out where?

Quite a few Counter-stamps are commercial. Many copper pennies were stamped with "Lloyds" and used as tokens for their paper. The Chinese used Chop marks to confirm authenticity or claim ownership. Some were also governmental - indicating a re-valuation or the use in subsidiary or revolutionary organisations. Many early Caribbean coins are counter stamped versions of other country's money. Engraving tends to be more personal, individual and so difficult to track down. When I first started collecting again in the early 2000s I picked up a cartwheel penny at an antiques shop, which, in the terms of the vendor, had been "Vandalised as someone's written all over the back" As a result it was cheap. The wording was something like "When this you see, think of me, J Bond 1827" - it was a transportation token created by or for someone about to be shipped to the colonies! I put it on Ebay, and it sold for a tidy sum, going to Australia. Sadly I no longer have a picture. Here is a Brazilian 20 Reis counter stamped by the government to revalue as 40 Reis.

I think it has been like that since the software was upgraded as I found I also had a trillion unread messages. CP should be able to confirm.

The one consideration you have missed is the possibility that the overdate (or letter) was not punched deep enough into the die to pass the lowest point of the previous digit. Using the same reasoning, consider the 1817 GEOE/R shilling. I refuse to believe the engraver thought 'Here'a correct legend, I'll just create an error by 'correcting' the R with an E so that some nerds 200 years from now find something to get excited about'. Clearly the E would have been put in first, but the correction wasn't sunk deep enough. Easy to do if you are looking at the lowest point in the field as a reference point rather than the bottom of a very small deep pit.

I suppose it depends what you've got to work with. EJ ❤ FD on a love token is not going to go anywhere. It just depends how much information you have to start with. If you've got full names and a date you might be able to find something out but you are probably going to need a paid subscription to ancestry or some other Genealogy website and even then it might lead knowhere as there likely will of been more than one person with that name around the same period. I got lucky with my cartwheel penny as it had the guys full name , rank and unit engraved into it.

Can I please email someone from the forum, to take a look and confirm what I'm seeing is actually correct. Can said person respect my privacy and not share images of my coin?

Im scared to face the music, I cant find any differences between my coin and the example which sold at the baldwin auction for 37k, mine also shows the weak /missing liner circle in the same place as the coin sold in the Baldwin auction. I dont want to post pictures to the forum for privacy reasons.

In some forums - e.g. Items for Sale - I was paging through endless supposedly unread topics (the "Next unread topic" button was at the bottom of every topic which should only be there for actual unread topics). Eventually - after wondering why so many people were selling stuff - I noticed the dates of each topic were a few years old! Has there been a software change very recently?

I saw most of his Davos speech - honestly, it was just a raving ramble complaining about everyone except his own team, yet claiming ridiculous false achievements in his first year.

Aha.. do tell more..I have a few and have been wondering where to go to discover more details out... any Ideas where to go? 👍

I couldn't agree more, I didn't have a agenda when buying coins and not knowing anything I bought any items I found old and interesting .....and cheap 🤷I like Paddy's with chunk missing...It has character, I have a few that have chunks missing and others with holes that have been worn as a pendants..... one is in a really good condition easy to make out the king and letters... I guess this came to be as it was worn rather than in circulation. 👍

Unless his full name was Harold Trumpsson?

Most of the stuff I buy seems to look like that

That's been to hell & back 😆 I think it's probably a cast piece rather than a forged die. The legends are neat.

5 Cents Buffalo & 1884, 1923 Dollars 👍

Even thicker, I have an 1819 in this box too!

The plot thickens. Another overdate spotted in the wild. Ebay. 1820 over 1819. Any sign of Seuk ? Love to know his take on these overdate forgeries it's strange yet fascinating.

AHA! only a couple of thousand coins to look through ? me to...Ive spent a year of sorting through 30+ years of boot fair and flea market finds, amongst my hoard there's been some surprising finds that I completely forgot about. there's a few silver Dollars amongst others I'm going to have to dig out a Buffalo coin...It has a mint flaw...I think, I have kept the silver ones that aren't to worn as I'm not in no rush to move these on until retirement 👍

"The Harold II silver penny hoard only includes pennies minted by the king" You would have thought a king would have better things to do

Sounds good, but we still need photos! Jerry

Thanks, I have been studying all of those images. I have used the main identifier for the obverse shown on Richards site being the R & I that don’t touch. And for the reverse the thinner waist/ trident shaft. ( If you draw a line from the nose of Brittania down to by her waist you can clearly see a wider gap on the no H compared to the heaton coins) then I have used the other identifiers for the P+r to confirm the main two.

You seem to know what you have 👍 These are the other pictured known examples off Richards site to compare. https://rarestpennies.wordpress.com/1882-f112/