Even a jaded old collector can sometimes have a pleasant surprise

RYK

I have been cleaning out portions of our home, having recently survived another renovation project, and found what was left of my grandmother's "hoard" of coins. I have already cherrypicked most of the good stuff out of the collection. I opened an envelope, which had a handful of Indian head cents, and one in particular caught my eye:




It is an obviously heavily corroded Civil War token, of little value, and likely circulated alongside IHC for many years, before finding its way into this hoard. A fun numismatic discovery on an otherwise, hot, humid, "How?", housecleaning Sunday afternoon

MsMorrisine

That's a fancy good!

Flatwoods

Much cooler than an Indian cent in my opinion.
I like that kind of surprise.

coindeuce

The least scarce of any of the OH110 (G.B.Barrett - Cadiz, Ohio) store token varieties in Fuld is ranked R6.

kaz

Neat! finding something like that will put a smile on your face, for sure.

bidask

'jaded old collector"..........?

kranky

Cool find, RYK. Any idea how she might have gotten it?

Treashunt

A fun find

DaveWcoins

Do you realize how hard it was to secretly slip a cool Civil War Token into your grandmother's stash, just so you wouldn't leave us RYK?

steveben

ms70

Glad it found itself in the hands of someone who appreciates it.

ranshdow

That is pretty cool (I'm into tokens).

NumisOxide

<< <i>I have been cleaning out portions of our home, having recently survived another renovation project, and found what was left of my grandmother's "hoard" of coins. I have already cherrypicked most of the good stuff out of the collection. I opened an envelope, which had a handful of Indian head cents, and one in particular caught my eye:




It is an obviously heavily corroded Civil War token, of little value, and likely circulated alongside IHC for many years, before finding its way into this hoard. A fun numismatic discovery on an otherwise, hot, humid, "How?", housecleaning Sunday afternoon >>


Cool suprise find!

kryptonitecomics

I had a similar but not quite as exciting find today as well.....

I was looking through a small plastic case that has little drawers where I keep tubes of medicine, mole skin, a small amount of my daughters make up etc when I ran across an 1904 IHC...probably in VF+ condition. I have no idea how it get there or how long its been there since I have had this little case for probably 10 years. It was raw...no 2x2 or anything....

jonathanb

The CWT Indian Head dies are hard to tell apart, but I think yours is OH-110-A-1a (R-7), listed in Bowers recent CWT book at $40-60 in VF-EF.

Zoins

Nice find and surprise!

RYK

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Exactly!

Do you realize how hard it was to secretly slip a cool Civil War Token into your grandmother's stash, just so you wouldn't leave us RYK?

Exactly!

Boosibri

Sometimes it is the most simple items with the biggest emotional connection. Very cool to find.

gsa1fan

Great share

jhdfla

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Exactly!

Do you realize how hard it was to secretly slip a cool Civil War Token into your grandmother's stash, just so you wouldn't leave us RYK?

Exactly! >>



Haha! Cracked me up this morning...

bsshog40

A lot better than what I find in my house. Lol