~ Copper 4 The Weekend™ ~

Broadstruck

My big little newp which deserves a better write up, but I'm under the weather and just wanted to post it...

1893 Samuel Franklin Cody, Wild West Show, Grand Match, Copper, 13mm Diameter.

Wild West Showman Samuel Franklin Cody ventured to Europe at the end of 1892 to take advantage of the new popularity of bicycle racing. In 1893 he offered $10,000.00 to $20,0000.00 to any racers on a single or tandem bicycle who could beat him riding his horse. Although original posters advertising these events have survived the tokens just didn't. This is the finest of 3 survivors I've tracked research wise by a huge margin struck for children who attended the Grand Match Horse-vs-Bicycle competition in France. The size of this token may very well be the reason for the lack of survivors.

coinsarefun

1860 J.N.T. Levick Miller NY-458 PCGS MS64R
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DCW

"Time is Money" 1863 Hussey's Special Message Post

George Hussey ran a delivery service in NY during the civil war, which filled the need for financial institutions to receive their documents without delay. There are two varieties. This one has "Expediency" under a horse and rider on the obverse and a beautiful locomotive pictorial on the reverse.
The other has "Exigency" with the same horse and rider, but the reverse is just text. This is a great example I recently sold to a member here:

CWT1863

WaterSport

I like taking pictures of Satin cents, this is SP 69 RED.

coinsarefun

It’s hard not to pick this one up as it’s in really nice grade, color and
depiction of the Arc of the Covenant.
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coinbuf

I received a new coin today but no pics yet so for now.

ChangeInHistory

coinsarefun

1870’s H. Gagnon & Company, Saint Roch, Quebec, Canada, Merchant Token, Breton-571
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spacehayduke

Downtown1974

2017 Dan Carr Eclipse medal - satin copper finish.

bolivarshagnasty

Mark

I bought this one 5 years ago in a Heritage auction. It's ex-Denali. J-846, PR 64RB

Zoins

Here's my new Money Makes the Mare Go store card from Gerdts. This is an upgrade from the one below. I'd love to get one that's more red and some off metal ones, the latter not for this thread

Any one know what Gerdt's full first and middle name were?

coinbuf

BG

DCW

Not mine, but here is an interesting Lincoln doubleheader from the Zabriskie Collection:

I believe it to be unique. This married two Lincoln obverse dies by Lovett, both of which failed prematurely. You can see the die cracks most prominently above Lincoln's head on die 1.

ricko

Some really unique copper this week... Thanks to all... Cheers, RickO

Broadstruck

@Zoins I sold this one a couple years ago and it was the reddest I've ever seen.

1863 H. D. Gerdts - Coin Dealer, New York, "Money Makes The Mare Go" Fuld-NY630AD-2a, Rarity-3+



Just another fun Coin Dealer pictorial CWSC with coins falling out of the hole in the sack of money.