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THE THREE C4SThe latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is a run of the short-lived Coinquest Countermark Collectors' Circular, contributed by Dave Schenkman. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided this report and question. -Editor 
The Three C4s The "C4" acronym is popular in U.S. numismatics, with at least three associated entities. Most well known is the Colonial Coin Collectors Club, which publishes The C4 Newsletter, now in its 33rd year. The Carson City Collectors Club of America ("C4OA") held forth from 2005 to 2015, and, courtesy of David Schenkman, we recently scanned a run of the short-lived Coinquest Countermark Collectors' Circular, published by Carling Gresham from 1975-1976. The periodical aimed to unite countermark collectors and to promote associated research. Authors included Warren Lapp ("Counterstamps on U.S. Large Cents" in issue no. 2), David Schenkman ("More Countermark Pairs" in issue no. 5) and the authoritative Gregory Brunk, who contributed "A Tentative Countermark Bibliography" in no. 6. The thought of only three C4s is oddly disruptive to our sense of bibliophilic and nomenclatural order. Surely an E-Sylum reader can identify a fourth? Image: Coinquest Countermark Collectors' Circular masthead Garrett Ziss adds: "There is also the Currency Club of Chester County, one of my home clubs and one of the few numismatic clubs in America that is exclusively devoted to paper money. However, it does not go by C4, but rather, CCCC." Are there any other "quad C" clubs out there? -Editor
Link to Coinquest Countermark Collectors' Circular on Newman Portal:
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