Copper 4 the Weekend

DCW

A new purchase from Stacks, a piece from Joseph Merriam which commemorates a visit from Prince Edward to the United States in 1860.

Happy weekend, everyone. Post your coppers...

CCDollar

I'll start off small...my one and only Indian Cent.

CC

drwstr123

Paradisefound

BEAUTIFUL COINS!!! Will cooper tarnish less than brass?

coinsarefun

1888 Grover Cleveland Satirical Inaugural Token NCG MS65RB
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The bison refers to Buffalo, NY where the beefy President cleveland was at one time the mayor. “r.r.r.” refers to Blaine’s unfortunate utterance of “rum, romanism and rebellion”. The face of the harpy on the reverse is meant to be Blaine’s.
The design has given us a male harpy - Virgil and Hesiod have given us only females in greek mythology, Harpies were vultures with the head and breasts of a woman. they were very fierce and loathsome, living in an atmosphere of lth and stench and contaminating everything which they touch.
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coinsarefun

1863 Money Makes The Mare Go Knickerbocker Currency F254/255a PCGS MS65RB.
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silverpop

CommemDude

OldIndianNutKase

coinnut

Desert Moon

CWT1863

WI 250C-1a. R5. PCGS MS-64BN. Ex: George J. Fuld, Doug Watson, Rich Hartzog, Rossa & Tanenbaum, and Q. David Bowers.

cardinal

Ex: FCC Boyd, John J. Ford, Steve Tanenbaum:

ricko

Some nice copper here..... and looks like four NY tokens.... Tokens must have been really popular here back in those days... Cheers, RickO

coinsarefun

I had some extra time this weekend to reimagine a few of my tokens.
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1796 GREAT BRITIAN HEREFORDSHIRE HALFPENNY - HEREFORD E: PLAIN. NGC MS 64 RB
.I really like this one, Obverse represents breaking the chains from the king and the reverse is simply beautiful
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1860 OSWEGO NY. M-NY-1008 M.L. EX: MARSHALL MCCLURE COLLECTION NGC MS 65 RB
This one exhibits such nice pl fields but never could capture that, even the auction company couldn't
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1864 MA F-760A-8a S. EX: TANENBAUM COLLECTION EX. LESLIE HEILBRONNER. NGC MEDAL MS 65 RB
Dig the crazy beard and hair detail and the reverse is the best as it is the Liberty Cap and Rays
Also quite strong pl fields but very difficult to capture. It is pristine and the light white lines are on the slab.
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giorgio11

Kind regards,

George

ldhair

cardinal

A recent pickup - an 1876 Centennial Medal, struck in bronzed copper with the rare Maryland Arms obverse:

EXOJUNKIE

DCW

@EXOJUNKIE said:

I always wondered why NGC calls this "Merriam's Tomb." It is George Washington's Tomb, engraved on a medal by Merriam.
And the label, "Merriam Fecit?" Latin for Merriam's Work, what gives? Seems better to simply state "Resurgimus" which is Latin for Resurrection.
I mean, it's right there on the medal

Zoins

@DCW said:

@EXOJUNKIE said:

I always wondered why NGC calls this "Merriam's Tomb." It is George Washington's Tomb, engraved on a medal by Merriam.
And the label, "Merriam Fecit?" Latin for Merriam's Work, what gives? Seems better to simply state "Resurgimus" which is Latin for Resurrection.
I mean, it's right there on the medal

Is it in a reference book that way?

Also, the actual tomb and token look very different. The token has no brick and the doorway is much more narrow.

DCW

@Zoins
Merriam probably never even saw it. He may have seen a sketch, and went off that.

ricko

This is a modern store token I came across while going through a drawer in my coin cabinet.... Cheers, RickO