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Broadstruck · February 19, 2013 5:31AM

1833 Ephraim A. Hathaway, Providence, Rhode Island, HT-428, Low-74.

coinsarefun · February 19, 2013 5:39AM

<< <i>1833 Ephraim A. Hathaway, Providence, Rhode Island, HT-428, Low-74.

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Very cool!!

wait a minute......or should I say very coal

BillJones · February 19, 2013 5:50AM

A tribute to John Brown after he was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia ...

To many he is a hero. My take on him is righteous cause, ghastly methods. The very first person who was killed in his Harpers Ferry raid was an free African-American who worked as a baggage handler at the train station. Brown's plan was to steal guns from the Harpers Ferry Arsenal and then head up in the hills where he would conduct raids on slaveholders and who knows who else with the help of escaped slaves. First he would arm the slaves with pikes (spears) and then with the guns he had taken after they had been trained to use them. I'd call him a terrorist given his undisciplined, poorly planned methods, but to others he was a freedom fighter.

This piece is the scarcer variety in brass. The most commonly seen examples are in white metal.

And here is a not often seen medalet that commemorates the battle between the ironclad ships, the Monitor and the Virginia (a.k.a. the Merrimac). This piece is much scarcer than the commonly seen Civil War tokens with the possible exception of the Indiana Primitive varieties. If any of you guys would like me to go into the Monitor Civil War token varieties, just ask.

silverpop · February 19, 2013 6:02AM

part of with a pendent pope VI on the back

CoinZip · February 19, 2013 6:50AM

Twobitcollector · February 19, 2013 7:31AM

lordmarcovan · February 19, 2013 7:47AM

oldsubguru · February 20, 2013 12:15AM

Though these two tokens are fairly new, the combination and the striking errors are rather unique.

A total of three strikes occurred, 3 on the brass planchet and two on the copper/zinc planchet with rotation occurring between the second and third strike.

Mike Diamond wrote this analysis of what happened to these two tokens.

"The other pair is fascinating as it involves two planchets of remarkably different size and composition. The larger brass planchet was struck three times, as you say. After the first strike, the second planchet was fed beneath it and they stayed together for the next two strikes. They weren't actually fixed in position relative to each other, as the brockage shows close doubling. The faint "100" on the reverse of the brass token is a ghost image that bled through the thinned coin from the obverse die. But it's a complex ghost image. There are actually two overlapping ghost images, one raised and one incuse. The incuse ghost image was generated by the third strike. The raised ghost image was generated during the second strike."

Lakesammman · February 20, 2013 1:48AM

Cool tokens! Like them all.

coinsarefun · February 20, 2013 1:56AM

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ctf_error_coins · February 20, 2013 2:12AM

determined · February 20, 2013 1:59PM

<< <i>If any of you guys would like me to go into the Monitor Civil War token varieties, just ask. >>

Yes please Bill!

I always enjoy your posts because you connect history to the coins. I would love to hear anything you have to say on the Monitor Civil War token varieties. Maybe make a new thread for this?

BTW, almost four decades ago I did a report in high school on the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac. I've been fascinated ever since.

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