"Many thanks, once again, for your sterling efforts on our behalf with your weekly newsletter. Like nearly everyone else I am home-bound. I am making the most of this downtime by going over my long forgotten ‘to do' list.

I have not been able to read one important word on an original document related to UK merchant countermarked dollars. After a coin was countermarked with a value, it eventually became necessary to cancel that value because of movements in the silver bullion price. This is the only document discovered that refers to that process. The two images are just a reduction of the same document, with the second showing the word I need read, highlighted by the red arrows. The full sentence reads ‘Altering the head of a punch and making a new ?' If any of your readers could suggest words for the question mark, I would be in their debt.

Best wishes and Good health to all, "