This was going around in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s in the US. Looks like the Chinese copied it. There used to be an Exonumia page for it in Numista but for some reason that page was deleted last month and members moved to the penny coin page.
This was going around in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s in the US. Looks like the Chinese copied it. There used to be an Exonumia page for it in Numista but for some reason that page was deleted last month and members moved to the penny coin page.
I’ve seen these in plenty of novelty stores over the years and think I may have one in a box of exonumia I need to sort. It might be interesting to see all the dates they have the counter stamp and if there are various counter stamps.
I’ve seen these in plenty of novelty stores over the years and think I may have one in a box of exonumia I need to sort. It might be interesting to see all the dates they have the counter stamp and if there are various counter stamps.
This was how the page appeared in Jan. 2023 before it was deleted:
I follow the searches “countermark” and “counterstamp” on eBay and I'm getting tired of all the fantasy countermarks on Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels. There are also more of such countermarks on Washington quarters, sometimes with the letters' grooves coloured.
More concerning are all the fake Arabic countermarks on Victoria Indian rupees and other legitimate 19th-century coins.
As for the historical coincidences, they are the product of a fallacious historical method, whereby you look for such similarities which are actually meaningless. You can find all kinds of coincidences by pairing all kinds of things or people. Meaningless.
As Grumpy Cat used to say, “There are six letters in ‘s c h o o l’ and there are six letters in ‘p r i s o n’: this can't be just a coincidence”.
Oh, and in case this is of interest to some of you:
I follow the searches “countermark” and “counterstamp” on eBay and I'm getting tired of all the fantasy countermarks on Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels. There are also more of such countermarks on Washington quarters, sometimes with the letters' grooves coloured.
More concerning are all the fake Arabic countermarks on Victoria Indian rupees and other legitimate 19th-century coins.
As for the historical coincidences, they are the product of a fallacious historical method, whereby you look for such similarities which are actually meaningless. You can find all kinds of coincidences by pairing all kinds of things or people. Meaningless.
As Grumpy Cat used to say, “There are six letters in ‘s c h o o l’ and there are six letters in ‘p r i s o n’: this can't be just a coincidence”.
Oh, and in case this is of interest to some of you:
Camerinvs - elaborating on this, my favourite is where it says “ A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland ... A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe” makes for good reading.
But, Marilyn died a year before Kennedy was assasinated.
I’ve seen these in plenty of novelty stores over the years and think I may have one in a box of exonumia I need to sort. It might be interesting to see all the dates they have the counter stamp and if there are various counter stamps.
This was how the page appeared in Jan. 2023 before it was deleted:
Thank you. It interesting to see the years used. Sometimes they may have just pulled coins out of circulation, which would create numerous years. But still enjoyable to follow.
Camerinvs - elaborating on this, my favourite is where it says “ A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland ... A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe” makes for good reading.
But, Marilyn died a year before Kennedy was assasinated.
I didn't know this one! The thing any person should do is either ignore such claims, or fact-check before repeating them to someone else.
Likewise, half of the celebrity quotes out there are fake or attributed to the wrong person.
