Last week Dave Schenkman sent us an image of "a 1794 2 Reales with A. N. FORD counterstamp. Below that RUTLADER KANSAS is counterstamped in two lines."

Rich Hartzog writes:

Dusty Royer writes:

Rich Hartzog adds:

James Rutlader was born in Texas in 1921. and was the author of Allied Military Currency from World War II (1968). He was a Kansas City, MO, coin dealer in the 1960s to the 1980s, eventually running Rutlader Coins & Stamps. A longer inscription from a rubber stamp on paper script reads "JAMES RUTLADER / KANSAS CITY, MO." He also issued brass five and ten cent tokens and a uniface silver medal imitating a Morgan silver dollar (Bruce Smith).

By the 1990s he had opened the Rutlader Outpost in Louisburg, KS. It is a tourist attraction that consists of a recreated Old West town, opera house, RV park, antique mall, etc. It is located next to the Rutlader Wildlife Area on highway 69, half an hour south of Kansas City. The countermaked coins with "KANSAS" probably are associated with it. Many more pieces than those listed below probably exist. They were either advertising give-a-ways or were sold as souvenirs at the Outpost. They are relatively recent, but the two reales also has what seems to be a 19th century merchant stamp.

RUTLADER

Nickel: Buffalo (UK)

RUTLADER / KANSAS

Silver Dollar: UK (this may be the medal)

RUTLADER / KANSAS with A. M. FORD

Two Reales: 1794

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:MORE ON JOSEPH RUTLADER(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n31a06.html)