2006 Feuchtwanger Cent? Yup! (sort of)

ambro51

I knew these Gallery Mint pieces were out there, but I suppose a low production, you dont see them too often and when this one popped up on ebay it seemed to be calling to me... I wanna meet Great Great Grandpa and be part of the Collection!

so, auction sniper and me paid the ungodly price of $51 for this, and yes, it does have a scratch on the other side (which matters not for my purposes).

Its about 1 mm larger than an original, and with a gallery mint lettered edge. The Eagle seems to be closest to obverse 5. Though Im not certain, it looks as if it may actually be struck from German Silver.

edix2001

GMM issued the Feuchtwanger design on three issues their final year in business, as you can see in the very bottom row of my online coin cabinet linked below. Pewter is the standard issue for these types of mobile mint strikes, though a few of some of the types were struck on a larger press in silver, copper or bronze at times:
Gallery Mint Museum Mobile Mint Pewter Tokens

btw - I told GMM employee Michael Ellis at the time that the bird was missing its tongue.

llafoe

Someone needs to start attending FA - Feuchtwanger Anonymous!

DorkGirl

There is a point where adding anything feels good.

ambro51

Youre Right! No tounge!

They done a really nice job on the dentils.

ambro51

Very Sweet Token, the engraver here really had it down, I think Dr. Feuchtwanger himself would have approved! If you collect these, you should seek out one of these, its really the only way we can ever grasp what a PR68 Feuchtwanger would have looked like. Yup, really a nice job. Compare the macros with the ones I done of the 4E plate coin, it shows how well the recreation really is! (but the engraver did, as mentioned, forget the tounge!)


To show the black pool fields and cameo frost,





and now a series of comparison shots, the 174 year old one, and the 5 year old one!













Is that not Amazing? Its almost like capturing Van Goghs paintstroke technique.

Here I buy these xpensive coins and I get the willies over a repro!

NumisOxide

I've been meaning to add one of these to the Feuchtwanger collection.

coinsarefun

So that's what a hammered Feuchtwanger looks like....frost and all

lasvegasteddy

sweet piece there...thanks for sharing it too...

messydesk

Nice piece! I have a couple GMM Mobile Mint pewter tokens, but no Feuchtwanger. The close-ups give you an appreciation for the art of hand-engraving dies and how faithfully GMM reproduced production methods of yore.