Coin Counterstamp Help...

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,

We found a VERY exciting SILVER coin in the fields today... I will be posting it in the next day or two.

Does anyone have information on the counterstamp "G W"?

The coin dates to the early 1800's.



Regards,


Buckleboy

 

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[Arthur Neto]

GW

George Washington, maybe?

 

[CRUSADER]

Its bound to be a George someone

 

[fortbball9]

Can't wait to see some pic.If it is a George Washington coin,CONGRATS in advance!!!!!!

fortbball9

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

The book for this is "Merchant Countermarks on United States Coins" by Gregory Brunk. If your local coin dealer doesn't have it you can request it on inter-library loan from your local liberary. Generally inital counterstamps will prove to be unidentified and are called mavericks by collectors. If you find one with a complete name, a store name or an address you can sometimes figure out where they are from. good luck. siegfried schlagrule

 

[Mackaydon]

From what country is the coin? Denomination? Diameter? Weight? Any clue in advance?

 

[Iron Patch]

The book for this is "Merchant Countermarks on United States Coins" by Gregory Brunk. If your local coin dealer doesn't have it you can request it on inter-library loan from your local liberary. Generally inital counterstamps will prove to be unidentified and are called mavericks by collectors. If you find one with a complete name, a store name or an address you can sometimes figure out where they are from. good luck. siegfried schlagrule

All Brunk has is...

G.W. GUYMER

GWINNER

 

[BuckleBoy]

Here's a close-up. Initials may be a dead end, but I figured it was worth a shot.

 

[Iron Patch]

Here's a close-up. Initials may be a dead end, but I figured it was worth a shot.

I'd guess engraved rather than a stamp and probably just someone paying tribute to good ole GW. I could be dead wrong but still a cool find either way.

 

[hollowpointred]

i agree with Iron Patch, it looks engraved rather than stamped. i cant wait to see the full pictures!

 

[Mackaydon]

I'd go with hand carved vanity initials.

 

[Fast_Dave]

Probably just confuses the issue more, but Rulau lists a maverick G W counterstamp in his 1866-1889 token book on an 1835 half cent.

 

[DD-777]

Buck - if this did belong to one of the German immigrants i would think possibly German names...

 

[BuckleBoy]

Buck - if this did belong to one of the German immigrants i would think possibly German names...

If it were "G T" I would have known Exactly who it belonged to.


But I don't know who G W was...if it was someone that lived there.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Didn't you post a scan of the whole coin on another site? I could have sworn I saw it, just can't remember where.

 

[CRUSADER]

Here's a close-up. Initials may be a dead end, but I figured it was worth a shot.

I'd guess engraved rather than a stamp and probably just someone paying tribute to good ole GW. I could be dead wrong but still a cool find either way.

Agreed, its engraved (incised) not stamped, which will make it even harder it attribute

 

[BuckleBoy]

Didn't you post a scan of the whole coin on another site? I could have sworn I saw it, just can't remember where.

Yep. It's on this forum in Today's finds.


Crusader, you're right. I'm going to look through the genealogy of property owners of this land to see if there is a G.W. in there somehere. True it is hard to pin down, but an old German coin (uncommon find here) coming up in a German Immigrant farming community here...

I have a hunch that the initials could very well have belonged to the person who lost the coin. And perhaps I can find them with a trip through the deeds.


-Buckles

 

[CRUSADER]

Didn't you post a scan of the whole coin on another site? I could have sworn I saw it, just can't remember where.

Yep. It's on this forum in Today's finds.


Crusader, you're right. I'm going to look through the genealogy of property owners of this land to see if there is a G.W. in there somehere. True it is hard to pin down, but an old German coin (uncommon find here) coming up in a German Immigrant farming community here...

I have a hunch that the initials could very well have belonged to the person who lost the coin. And perhaps I can find them with a trip through the deeds.


-Buckles

That would be the most likely avenue.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

You can hit the local court house and do deed research on the property.. most of them are on line and you just have to keep referencing plat number and page.. you might get lucky and find a name associated with the property that matches the counter stamp...


MB

 

[Harry_Morant]

The script doesn't match the GW monograms I have in one of my reference books for coins dated between 1750 - 1850 but the GW's it has are:

Johann Luswig Adolf of Wied-Runkel 1706-62, and

Georg Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe 1807-60