Someone here should know this-- what is that token that totes the benefits of "smoking weed&qu
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I was reading the 100 Greatest Tokens and Medals book by QDB. In it was one token that I found amusing. It is some fat guy smoking what looks like a cigar (maybe it's a Philly Blunt) and the text on the token says something about the "benefits of smoking the weed". I can't remember the exact title of the token.
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Do you have a picture of the token? I just found it very funny to see a token like that in a QDB book. I tried to do a quick search online, but I was afraid The Man would start wondering why I was doing searches of weed. 
If anyone can help with this inquiry, it's these boards.
Do you have a picture of the token? I just found it very funny to see a token like that in a QDB book. I tried to do a quick search online, but I was afraid The Man would start wondering why I was doing searches of weed. Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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http://www.taedivm.org/christiania1.html
Obverse: No pleasure can exceed the smoking of the weed.
Supposedly the medal was a Joseph Levick storecard, and it's listed in Rulau under New York Merchant tokens as Miller NY 426.
Funny stuff!!
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
<< <i>Tokin' Token?
Good one! Have you heard that the marijuana issue was going to be decided by a joint session of Congress?
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<< <i>I was reading the 100 Greatest Tokens and Medals book by QDB. In it was one token that I found amusing. It is some fat guy smoking what looks like a cigar (maybe it's a Philly Blunt) and the text on the token says something about the "benefits of smoking the weed". I can't remember the exact title of the token. >>
Let me guess......it was on page 420?
<< <i>Just an old reference to tabacky....... >>
It probably evolved from an older name; Sot weed.
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<< <i>Tokin' Token?
Good one! Have you heard that the marijuana issue was going to be decided by a joint session of Congress?
please, doobie a good boy.
Joseph N.T. Levick was born circa 1828 and died in October 1908. He was a captain with the New York Volunteers in the Civil War. It was Levick who proposed that the American Numismatic Society have a published magazine and the American Journal of Numismatics was begun in 1866. He served as treasurer of the ANS from 1867 to 1874. Levick advertised himself as a banker and broker of government securities, foreign and domestic specie, stocks, bonds, and gold. He also dealt in rare coins. His name appeared in conjunction with several 19th century auctions sales including W. Elliott Woodard’s sale of October 1864
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No pleasure can exceed / The smoking of the weed aka The Smoker. Muled with other pieces like Woodgate & Co. (M-NY-981), J>N>T Levick (M-NY-426) and Ezra Hill (M-NY-317). The smoker die was done I think by G.H. Lovett and passed around to make many mules.
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dealmakr
As others have pointed out, "the weed" referred to is tobacco, of course, not "wacky backy".