Two new additions to my very small Worthy Coin Merchant Cards....scroll to bottom for the new ones

coinsarefun

His store cards were designed using an oversized 1792 LIBERTY PARENT OF SCIENCE & INDUST.
He was quite the coin salesman DON CORRADO ROMANO (1903-1984)
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Don Corrado Romano, Jr. (1926-1999), was born on February 24, 1926, at Rutherford, New Jersey. Romano, Jr., followed in his father's footsteps and also became a coin dealer.
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You can read more with this link to E-Sylum
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In 1943, he opened Worthy Coin Company, 23 Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts, and published and sold coin premium catalogues.
The obverse depicts a plugged bust of Liberty with: LIBERTY PARENT OF SCIENCE & INDUST:around. Dated 1792
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The verbiage on the reverse is: THE/WORTHY/COIN/1938-1988/CELEBRATING 50 years OF/NUMISMATIC EXCELLENCE/CORRADO ROMANO/FOUNDER 1928/INC. 1938

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A few years back I purchased a lot that had 7 coins in it all advertising Worthy Coinshop

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1988 Worthy Coin Co.
There are two rainbow-toned examples in copper, plus one each in aluminum, copper with a silver center, silver, and one overstruck on an 1891-O Morgan silver dollar. I also have an elongated struck on a Dime but haven't imaged it yet.
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Fast foreward a few years and I ran into this auction of 2-1988 Worthy coin Co. tokens,
One copper with silver center, and one lead. Obverse is a copy of the 1792 Judd-1 Pattern Cent.

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It got me thinking could this really be struck from a cancelled die? I ran into Stacks auction that sold the dies for $75
Sure wish I knew how owns them now.......

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Now, that tells me okay its worth a shot buying it but I have no idea as to if more than this one was struck in lead or were there many? I also found out the The Copper strikes are limited to 500 and the bimetallic copper with silver center is only 92 minted.
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Needless to say I thought these two would make a great addition to the seven I already have. Now I just need the gold double eagle overstruck and I think I may have a complete set.

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Broadstruck

If the dies at Stacks were canceled, it was most likely struck by them prior to being auctioned off.

coinsarefun

@Broadstruck said:
If the dies at Stacks were canceled, it was most likely struck by them prior to being auctioned off.

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Interesting thought. I wonder how many were struck after it was sold? I’ve never seen one out there.
Also, why wasn’t the obverse cancelled…….and who was the diesinker?
Questions, questions…….

Broadstruck

@coinsarefun said:

@Broadstruck said:
If the dies at Stacks were canceled, it was most likely struck by them prior to being auctioned off.

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Interesting thought. I wonder how many were struck after it was sold? I’ve never seen one out there.
Also, why wasn’t the obverse cancelled…….and who was the diesinker?
Questions, questions…….

I doubt any were stuck post sale of the dies at Stacks.

BillJones

The pieces with the silver center were supposed to be limited to a mintage of 92. They were given out to regular customers of the store, and that’s how I got mine. The rarest ones were over-struck on silver dollars and rarest of all, double eagles.

I still have two rolls of aluminum examples, which are the most common.

Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
Now I just need the gold double eagle overstruck and I think I may have a complete set.

A gold double eagle and Morgan dollar were just sold for $2,040 at Heritage as part of the Misfits Collection. I hope you got them!

https://coins.ha.com/itm/miscellaneous-tokens-and-medals/tokens-and-medals/two-struckover-1988-worthy-coin-corporation-tokens/a/1351-4072.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Looks like the same pair that sold in April, 2021 for $3,600. If so, looks like the Misfits Collection really wanted it.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/20th-century-tokens-and-medals/tokens-and-medals/two-piece-set-of-worthy-coin-tokens/a/1329-4946.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515