Interesting Draped Bust Found

[HopeN4Silver]

I found this Draped Bust yesterday. It is a 1802 but it has the letters stamped into the face of it. It also looks like
someone tried to drill a hole through the back which I understand. Has anybody ever seen something like this before?

 

[GKMan]

I have at least one stamped JS, don't recall if it was a draped or coronet..

Neat find, personalization like this makes them all that more interesting..

 

[HopeN4Silver]

That it does GK

 

[CT Todd]

Very nice find and interesting. The one I have is 1797 Draped bust and the counter stamp is E.T
Nice find. Good for you

 

[HopeN4Silver]

Thanks CT Todd maybe its some kind of trade stamp?

 

["Dr.Tones"]

These are called "counter stamps". They we're used as a cheap way of making a token to advertise your store. Usually the initials if the store owner or the abbreviation of the stores name. They would have been handed out as change and the customer would have been offered a discount for presenting it again at a later date. I was lucky enough to find one marked CB. There is a counter stamp catalog online. Just google it. Yours might be in there

 

[HopeN4Silver]

Thanks for the history lesson Dr.Tones, I will do just that. It would be pretty cool if I could locate the origin
of the marks.

 

[CT Todd]

Not trying to steal your thread but thought I'd add to yours. Good interesting stuff.

 

[HopeN4Silver]

GK Man have you found out where yours was used or by whom?

 

[GKMan]

I never bothered, haven't thought about it in years, found it around the dawn if the internet, so it was harder to research things then..