I looked at the blow-up pictures of the piece. It's really nice, but I have reservations about giving it an MS-68 grade. It's got a couple of tick marks on the obverse. The reverse looks to be perfect except for a tiny scrape on the dentiles at the top, which is perhaps the reason that it got that grade. Once you get that grade level, you get really picky if the price is a reflection of that grade number.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
I had that CAL. love token in my hands long enough to take photos of it many years ago (the mid to late 1980s). It was offered to me for $1,200 and I declined.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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Personally, I could not pay $300k for that coin
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I looked at the blow-up pictures of the piece. It's really nice, but I have reservations about giving it an MS-68 grade. It's got a couple of tick marks on the obverse. The reverse looks to be perfect except for a tiny scrape on the dentiles at the top, which is perhaps the reason that it got that grade. Once you get that grade level, you get really picky if the price is a reflection of that grade number.
I had that CAL. love token in my hands long enough to take photos of it many years ago (the mid to late 1980s). It was offered to me for $1,200 and I declined.