Rare Token Census

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Zoins
Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 30, 2019 10:03PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Given how many different R9 and R8 token types exist, has there ever been an effort to do a condition census for all these rare tokens?

I've run across a lot of R8 and R9 tokens but rarely do they have provenances / pedigrees.

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  • DNADave
    DNADave Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    There’s too many to make a project like that practical, I think. It might be possible to do it for one particular type of token with a relatively narrow focus.

    Here’s one page from Edkins’ book on coal scrip. It’s not an unusual page. There are literally hundreds of R-10s alone just for WV. CWTs are probably the

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Any type of census of tokens/coins, unless extremely rare (ten or less) would be very subjective, since so many exist and even in the hands of only casual or even non-collectors. Cheers, RickO

  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pretty ambitious.

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