Earlier this month Bill Groom told us about his discovery of a new EVERMAN counterstamp on a gold dollar. Now web site reader Nelson Clifton from the southern NJ/Philadelphia
area now reports an EVERMAN stamp on a Seated Liberty dollar. -Editor
I’ve been reinvigorated in numismatics since July 4, 2015; resolved to finish my childhood Whitman push-in 1909-1940 Lincoln Cent folder, purchasing a 1914-D online. The
impending year of 2016 whetted my love of history.
The hobby became a full-time endeavor by December, searching each day for coins and upgrading to Dansco albums. By springtime, 2017, I decided to complete my Buffalo Nickels
plus all silver and clad coin albums 1916> and a Dansco #7070 US Type Set.
The last two coins to complete my type set were the types-3 and -4 Seated Liberty Dollars; although I purchased my 1871 T-4 last, that coin arrived earlier than the “EVERMAN”
1859-O. This counterstamped dollar is the final coin to complete my set.
As I waited (and prodded the seller, a bit late with both communication AND shipping), curiosity caused my investigating the EVERMAN mark, when I discovered your
publication(s).
I hope this coin’s existence may help discerning exactly which culprit-EVERMAN shamelessly self-promoted himself upon our hobby, although I also must be thankful his deed(s)
enabled me to procure a specimen at such a reduced cost; I’ve witnessed prices rising significantly on these dollars, against and upward of what PCGS & Red Book quote as
market value in lower grades. I know the demand for type set coins has increased. My set includes all 5- or 6-types available for Seated Liberty coinage; winning auctions for all
types, or finding ‘affordable’ no-drapery half-dollars, has become a confounding endeavor, believe me. In finding this dollar, I consider myself one very lucky collector,
indeed.
Thanks. Nice coin. -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEW EVERMAN COUNTERSTAMP DISCOVERED (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n35a27.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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