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NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just thought I'd share my Feuchtwanger Hard Times Tokens. I started collecting these in 2006. My first one was a ANACS VF-20 6I purchased from JadeRareCoins. My latest addition is the HT-262, 3 cent piece. Will be adding many more in the future, gotta add more die marriages to the mix. The holed one cent on the right is Pedigreed to our very own lordmarcovan and will remain that way on the 2x2 insert. Enjoy!
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,084 ✭✭✭
    Nice set!

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  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭✭
    That is really cool. Thanks for sharing it.
    John Agre

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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Nice set going on there.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The second holey one looks vaguely familiar somehow. What's the pedigree on that one? image

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    Is that HT-262 with the NY coat of arms really rare? Gotta be. I have never seen one. Very cool looking.

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  • Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Pretty cool set you have there.
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The second holey one looks vaguely familiar somehow. What's the pedigree on that one? image
    Reread my post.image

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    Is that HT-262 with the NY coat of arms really rare? Gotta be. I have never seen one. Very cool looking. >>



    The HT-262 is listed as an R-3, it's scarce and much more rarer than the cent pieces but can be had.

    Thanks for the comments guys.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, apparently I'm "holey" in my reading comprehension, too. image

    I'm glad that piece has a worthy home. I'm happy with the upgrade I got, but the repunched date on that other was nifty.

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  • robecrobec Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice collection. I had no idea there were so many varieties.

    - Bob -

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  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Well i was gonna answer no to the title question (image) but since you showed them anyways...

    Very Nice! I too have never seen the NY CoA design either.
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool, and a nice display.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tell us more - what was he pushing re: composition/design and why?
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  • SpaceMonkeySpaceMonkey Posts: 3,311 ✭
    that is beautiful... and great presentation!





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  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The second holey one looks vaguely familiar somehow. What's the pedigree on that one? image >>



    Waiting to see ex-lordmarcovan on a holey coin.
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very, very nice. and yes I am jealous.... are ya happy nowimage

    I have been seriously checking them out lately and getting ready to jump in after seeing your's

    Niceimage


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  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An intresting and kool set indeed...image
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I read your title I thought that you were practicing a pick up line image

    Nice collection!

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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When I read your title I thought that you were practicing a pick up line image

    Nice collection! >>


    Damn your right, the title does sound weird.image
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Tell us more - what was he pushing re: composition/design and why? >>



    Here's what Conder101 had to say about why the U.S. never adopted the composition:

    "One Feuchtwanger had patented his composition and wanted royalties for supplying the mint with the alloy. Two, at the time there was no significant production of Nickel in the US and the metal for the coinage would all have to be imported from outside the country. The mint was looking for a replacement for the copper cent since the cost of the copper was almost equal to the face value of the coin and they were in danger of coing them at a loss. With the royalties an the importation costs there would have been no real advantage to the Feuchtwanger composition over that of the copper.

    Even when they did fianlly go to a coppernickel composition in 1857 it still was not liked at the mint because it was very difficult to create the alloy because of the extremely high melting point of the nickel, and the resulting alloy was very hard on the coinage dies and even so did not strike up well. It became even worse when congress mandated the 75% copper 25% nickel three cent and five cent pieces a few years later. That is why it is difficult to find fully struck three and five cent nickels and why it is almost impossible to find coins that don't come from cracked dies. Before 1865/6 the number of die pairs the Philadelphia mint had to make each year for all denominations amounted to a few hundred pairs. In 1868 they were making over 1400 pairs just for the nickels alone."

    The Hard Times token book has about a 3 page write up on Dr. Feuchtwanger. It's a good read.
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Terrific set, now you have me thinking that I need to get me one of those.


    Sean Reynolds
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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For the day crew.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting.. I had never seen a set of those before. Thanks, Cheers, RickO
  • BSBS Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Very cool, I love the three cent. image
  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    I want to get the whole selection one day...they are pretty cool coins...Here is my humble selection:



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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Cool batch!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The blobby letters in ONE CENT on the reverse of your second one are interesting, Steve.

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  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    Thats a very cool collection there.
  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭✭
    reviving this thread so everybody can bring their Feuchties out!!! by the way, are dates known other than 1837 and 1864?? that seems like an extreme span of years to have no issues in between


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    greg

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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭✭
    what? no love for the feuchtwangers?? surely somebody has some pics to share

    greg

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  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    I love the eagle on those- nice collection.
    "College men from LSU- went in dumb, come out dumb too..."
    -Randy Newmanimage
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,709 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>reviving this thread so everybody can bring their Feuchties out!!! by the way, are dates known other than 1837 and 1864?? that seems like an extreme span of years to have no issues in between


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    greg >>













    I think you should send that nasty old thing to me.


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