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1880's Rueter & Company - Highland Springs Brewery, Boston, Massachusetts, MaBo-H95, 29mm Diameter, Copper.
This is my first newp of 2016 and it's a biggie as this is the rarest of the Highland Springs Brewery tokens with nearly fully red with bluish patina surface conditions I never thought existed. It far betters John J. Ford, Jr.'s example sold in 2013 which was completely pitted and marred with a large old scratch. The obverse shows the brewery tools of the trade and mentions SEMPER IDEM which means "Always The Same". The obverse design was also the exact logo used by Rueter on their beer bottle labels. Russell Rulau only values examples in EF at $1,200.00 mentioning a example was offered by a dealer in 1950 for an ask of $50.00 which was about the same 1 1/2 ounces of gold. With the addition of this Rueter & Co. example along with my Rueter & Alley's it completes my set of Highland Spring Brewery in matched condition.
This is my first newp of 2016 and it's a biggie as this is the rarest of the Highland Springs Brewery tokens with nearly fully red with bluish patina surface conditions I never thought existed. It far betters John J. Ford, Jr.'s example sold in 2013 which was completely pitted and marred with a large old scratch. The obverse shows the brewery tools of the trade and mentions SEMPER IDEM which means "Always The Same". The obverse design was also the exact logo used by Rueter on their beer bottle labels. Russell Rulau only values examples in EF at $1,200.00 mentioning a example was offered by a dealer in 1950 for an ask of $50.00 which was about the same 1 1/2 ounces of gold. With the addition of this Rueter & Co. example along with my Rueter & Alley's it completes my set of Highland Spring Brewery in matched condition.
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Best, SH
Very, very nice. I like the way they worked the & into the design with the tools. Being a homebrewer I like beer tokens but own none as yet!
Thanks Kaz, As I was really excited when this arrived. Here's the older thread with Rueter & Alley - Highland Spring Brewery tokens.
I just made my first 2016 newp (an inexpensive but cool pictorial love token on a Barber dime), but that of course is silver.
No copper newps lately, so I'll do a re-run and repost a favorite.
(Sorry- being a Box of 20 guy nowadays, I have a rather small repertoire.)
It's gilt copper, in this case. Added bling, y'know.
"Official" TrueView:
Phil also gave me an alternate TrueView draft. The mirrors and contrast on this coin must've been challenging to photograph. You can see the differences between his photos and my own quick-n-dirty flatbed scans in the full slab image. The scanner actually seemed to pick up on the contrast a little better, weird though that is.
"Alternate" TrueView:
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I have not seen any of those....Cheers, RickO
Neat token Broadstruck...and great condition. Did wineries put out HTT's??
I have not seen any of those....Cheers, RickO
Thanks ricko, I haven't seen any vineyard issued tokens, but there are many wine merchant tokens out there.
Here's a few in copper from my collection...