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1867 William D. Grimshaw / Thomas Prosser & Sons, New York, Miller NY-105 / Wright 405, 39mm Diameter, White Metal, R-5.
This has always been refereed to as a W.D. Grimshaw token, however Thomas Prosser was the proprietor located at 15 Gold Street.
Thomas Prosser was the distributor of Grimshaw's High Speed Compressed Air Hammer and his store card token was actually struck on the Air Hammer featured on the obverse.
Grimshaw's Air Hammer was capable of 150-420 blows per minutes at the time of patent in 1865 and by 1867 adjustable between 100-800.
I missed out on this exact token shown far below 2 years ago and immediately started researching it heavily.
This store card was already considered Rarity-5 by Benjamin Wright in 1901 and today is far more difficult to locate then it's rarity level in any condition.
Along with the cleaned corroded lower grade example shown directly below which was the best Russel Rulau could find to plate in his book on U.S. Trade Cards I know of only of two other survivors.
Here is the finest example known which I immediately purchased when it became available again.
This has always been refereed to as a W.D. Grimshaw token, however Thomas Prosser was the proprietor located at 15 Gold Street.
Thomas Prosser was the distributor of Grimshaw's High Speed Compressed Air Hammer and his store card token was actually struck on the Air Hammer featured on the obverse.
Grimshaw's Air Hammer was capable of 150-420 blows per minutes at the time of patent in 1865 and by 1867 adjustable between 100-800.
I missed out on this exact token shown far below 2 years ago and immediately started researching it heavily.
This store card was already considered Rarity-5 by Benjamin Wright in 1901 and today is far more difficult to locate then it's rarity level in any condition.
Along with the cleaned corroded lower grade example shown directly below which was the best Russel Rulau could find to plate in his book on U.S. Trade Cards I know of only of two other survivors.
Here is the finest example known which I immediately purchased when it became available again.
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Recently I located a group of the World War II armed forces participation medals at the Lakeland coin show. These pieces are quite inexpensive (less than $100 for whole group of six), and I find them to be quite interesting. Here is the victory medal. It is signed by "TJ" which I think means that Thomas Hudson Jones, who did most of the design work for the rest of series also executed this piece. The reverse refers to a speech about the four freedoms that Franklin Roosevelt gave during this period.
This is the only 1845-1860 U.S. Merchant Token issued for the state of Georgia.
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
<< <i>I have seen some ugly Ms. Liberties, but that one has got to be the worst. You sure that is not the Elephant Man?
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
Yes she sure was a homely looking southern belle...
Her mother who was no raving beauty either but still managed to grace the obverse of 3 (HT-44, 243, & 289) hard times tokens in 1837.
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<< <i>I have seen some ugly Ms. Liberties, but that one has got to be the worst. You sure that is not the Elephant Man?
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
Yes she sure was a homely looking southern belle...
Her mother who was no raving beauty either but still managed to grace the obverse of 3 (HT-44, 243, & 289) hard times tokens in 1837.
Is that the Sean Penn Token ?, or is that another one?
Steve
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<< <i>I have seen some ugly Ms. Liberties, but that one has got to be the worst. You sure that is not the Elephant Man?
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
Yes she sure was a homely looking southern belle...
Her mother who was no raving beauty either but still managed to grace the obverse of 3 (HT-44, 243, & 289) hard times tokens in 1837.
Is that the Sean Penn Token ?, or is that another one?
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Yes this is the one that Sean Penn's great great grandfather posed for while in drag
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<< <i>I have seen some ugly Ms. Liberties, but that one has got to be the worst. You sure that is not the Elephant Man?
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
Yes she sure was a homely looking southern belle...
Her mother who was no raving beauty either but still managed to grace the obverse of 3 (HT-44, 243, & 289) hard times tokens in 1837.
Is that the Sean Penn Token ?, or is that another one?
Steve >>
Yes this is the one that Sean Penn's great great grandfather posed for while in drag
Ya Know after a few drinks, Susans not looking that Bad
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<< <i>I have seen some ugly Ms. Liberties, but that one has got to be the worst. You sure that is not the Elephant Man?
To illustrate my point, here is a close-up of Ms. Liberty on the 1838. She is not exactly a raving beauty, but she does look better than the lady on the token.
Yes she sure was a homely looking southern belle...
Her mother who was no raving beauty either but still managed to grace the obverse of 3 (HT-44, 243, & 289) hard times tokens in 1837.
Is that the Sean Penn Token ?, or is that another one?
Steve >>
Yes this is the one that Sean Penn's great great grandfather posed for while in drag
Ya Know after a few drinks, Susans not looking that Bad
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I think I should have kept this silvered example .
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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"A circular turned polished wooden box, gold plaque inset in lid, engraved 'The Oak of this Box was 656 Yrs under Old London Bridge'."
It's a tiny box, barely 3 inches, which makes the engraving remarkable and requires a loupe to read.
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yes, that ones way cool, i like
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