Counterstamps Pubblico Deposited
- The earliest example of counterstamping is on a Persian coin of about 410 BCE. The most famous of counterstamps: Head of a fool on the neck of an ass. The double royal insult given to necessity coins of the UK. A Goldsmith�s Hall plate silver mark of UK�s George III was stamped by the Bank of England over Spanish colonial 8 reales coins of Carlos IIII in 1803 (oval mark) and 1804 (octagonal mark). Initially, these were circulated at 4 shillings and 9 pence, inspiring `Two kings' heads and not worth a crown.' And the more acidly poetic: `The Bank, to make its Spanish dollars pass, stamped the head of a fool on the neck of an ass'.
- Numiscadero Spanish to English Glossary (Gary Beals)