At the recent ANA Money Show in Pittsburgh I gave out tokens to mark my 10th wedding anniversary. These were actually leftover tokens from the wedding itself which I counterstamped with the date 2011. The Badger Mint created the punch for me, and I performed the counterstamping myself, which was a bit of a learning experience. It took awhile to determine the best location for placing the overdate, and I have a small collection of bizarre trial pieces.

As the Pittsburgh show was a bit on the quiet side, I came home with several counterstamped tokens remaining. While they last, I'll send one to any E-Sylum reader who wants it in exchange for a self-addressed and stamped envelope with 64 cents postage. As an alternative, readers can just send me one dollar, and I'll provide the return envelope myself.

For the record, 1000 of these tokens were produced in 2001 by the Patrick Mint in California. 99 of them were slabbed by my employer, NGC, and most of these were given out as wedding favors. I counterstamped 80 of the remaining, unslabbed tokens for our anniversary, and there are still 100+ left over that I hope to counterstamp for some future anniversary.

David W. Lange
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