I always thought this CWT featured Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy...
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I'm saddened to find out that the obverse design is instead a portrait of General Ambrose Burnside and his famous sideburns 
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<< <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>
He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons
<< <i>I'm saddened to find out that the obverse design is instead a portrait of General Ambrose Burnside and his famous sideburns
This is funny as hell!!!
I wonder what kind of reactions I would get if I did my beard that way today.
I think I could pull that off and I have just slightly less (well ... actually about the same amount) of hair on top of my head as Burnside too.
I think I will save that picture and if I get the nerve up to do that I will have to post a comparative composite.
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<< <i>Hahahaha!
I wonder what kind of reactions I would get if I did my beard that way today.
I think I could pull that off and I have just slightly less (well ... actually about the same amount) of hair on top of my head as Burnside too.
I think I will save that picture and if I get the nerve up to do that I will have to post a comparative composite.
Please keep us posted!
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<< <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>
He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons
Not sure I get the joke.
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<< <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>
He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons
Not sure I get the joke.
If you look at the photo of Burnside he's unable to button 4,5,6... 7 was a major stretch.
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<< <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>
He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons
Not sure I get the joke.
If you look at the photo of Burnside he's unable to button 4,5,6... 7 was a major stretch. >>
Now I get it. I'm a little slow before I've had my second cup of coffee.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Sean Reynolds
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His nose looks like Alice the Goon from the old comic, and, the Popeye cartoon.
Not a flattering image.
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<< <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>
He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons
yeah, no kidding, lmao.
How many of you think that this is Lincoln? The dies were cut by the same Rhode Island die sinker who cut the Burnside die. It is believed that the last name of this die sinker was Charnley. He had problems with faces, which came out rather cartoonish, but he was the only CWT die sinker used capital and small letters on his dies.
This obverse variety is quite rare. It appears on a number of Civil War tokens, but all of the varieties that include it are rare. The CWT varity number is Fuld RI 700G-1a. It is rare enough that the late Steve Tannenbaum wanted to buy it from me after I won it in an auction. I don't think that he had seen another one. It is rated as an R-9, 2 to 4 known.
Edit to add...Bill, that Lincoln piece is excellent.
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