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This 181 year old copper is the Only example of Lyman Low's Original 183 Hard Times Token varieties to ever be graded with a RED designation by NGC. I also own the ex: Gilbert Steinberg 1989 Stacks sale RB example which was described in the auction catalog as "cartwheel luster with a liquid fire effect" and this example below in hand makes it's flame level seem extinguished.
1837 Illustrious Predecessor HT-34/Low-20 Hard Times Token
To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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Joseph Merriam medal, 27 mm dia., ca. 1861 Ex: Fred Reed, Q. David Bowers
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
U.S. STORE CARDS & MERCHANT TOKENS - MILLER 1850's NEW YORK
MILLER-841 STRASSBURGER & NUHN NGC MS 64
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Even though this is brass it has toned a nice coppery color and actually is quite pl on both sides.
You would never know it from my pics
But I have seen this Merchant mules with a few other reverse, such as Washington and a few others and they attribute it to Scoville. I'm wondering then this too would be made from them?
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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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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
A couple of amazing coppers I've handled recently. Formerly of the Capt. Andrew Zabriskie Collection:
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Herez my HT-34's........
Sorry, I posted non copper and took it down.
But low and behold, I found one I own.
Some very nice copper here.... Just looked at a store token I have had stuck away for a long time... dated 1956... so contemporary compared to these...Cheers, RickO
1864 Dunn & Co. Charlestown,MA MA-200-3a PCGS MS66BN
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."