Washington Colonial Tokens
Zoins
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I've always liked the Washington & Independence Draped Bust tokens. Many years ago I considered getting a silver restrike but held off and recently picked up my first one below. It's an original uncentered broadstrike, graded PCGS XF45.
These have an interesting background described below. While they are collected with US colonials, apparently they were minted in the UK.
https://coins.nd.edu/colcoin/colcoinintros/WashDRAPED.intro.html
Post any Washington colonial tokens you have here 
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Always loved them but haven’t jumped in yet.
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Since it was struck in England, is it also considered to be a Conder token?
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I bought two of them many, many years ago (early to mid 80's) for $30 each. They're still raw but I'm planning to send them in. I REALLY, REALLY like yours.
Very nice token from the infancy of our nation....Cheers, RickO
@Zoins, I am familiar with the Notre Dame site, but had not read the Washington token writeup. Very informative!
Mine are not all that great but fun to have.
That’s an interesting question.
I’ve never seen them classified as or collected with Conder tokens.
They always seem to be classified and and collected with Colonials.
Not sure why that’s the case.
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Great tokens @ldhair and @CWT1863. I do like the ones that say "ONE CENT" on them.
The interesting thing about these is that I was first attracted to them because some of them can be had in high grade, including restrikes. Then, when I pick one up, it's a low grade!
It appears that many of these show some wear including the one I have. I wonder if some of these may have actually been in circulation?
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@Zoins Thank you for the link. Great stuff!
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. It took me many years thinking about these before picking up this one and I spent much more than $30. I do need to send it in to get TrueViewed.
Please post photos of yours when you have them. I'd love to see them!
I was just looking these over CoinAuctionsHelp.com and they indicate the 2 headed Washington One Cent piece could be worth $60,000 in G4 for the Ugly Head, Copper variety. Are either of the 2 posted above this variety?
http://coinauctionshelp.com/washingtonpieces_washingtonportraitpieces1783.html#.XKroROtKjUo
The bottom one is a raw piece I picked up that needs to get slabbed sometime. If other errors exist, let me know as I'm in the market