I can't say I've seen one of these before, because I haven't.

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  • magikbilly
    magikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
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    Hi there,

    I don't know about that, but visually it reminds me of some cut sections of bridge or suspension cables I have seen presented for this or that.

    Best,
    Eric
  • Batman23
    Batman23 Posts: 5,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Me neither, its an interesting looking token.

    Thanks for posting.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have seen one (the same one, several times) at a coin show in the Seattle area. Usually received comments, but no one seemed interested enough to buy it. Cheers, RickO
  • StubbyMcNumbthumbs
    StubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
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    I googled "Boyd's Battery" and found this:

    Magnetic Battery

    Interesting, but not a "token".
  • savoyspecial
    savoyspecial Posts: 7,374 ✭✭✭✭
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    Rulau includes them in his exhaustive reference Standard Catalog of United States Tokens 1700-1900

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • StubbyMcNumbthumbs
    StubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
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    I stand corrected. image
  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They aren't tokens but token collectors include them in their collections. They are ineffective medical devices that were sold by quacks to a gullible public.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ColonialCoinUnion
    ColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
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    I've seen these.

    I can't for the life of me imagine why they ended up being collected by token specialists though. I guess the fact that they are metal, and round, explains it.

    Coin Rarities Online
  • notwilight
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    A galvanic cell is created by putting 2 dissimilar metals in contact with each other. Sometimes you have to be careful of this when designing things. google "galvanic corrosion" if you're interested. Copper and brass are not far enough apart in galvanic potential to cause much of a cell. I don't know what the white metal is but it is probably not aluminum which was not commonly available then. Anyway, the sum of the potential around the cell as they have designed it is zero. The fact that there is no galvanic corrosion after all these years indicates the white metal is not high in galvanic potential--likely silver.

    It is just another snake oil product with some science behind it that most people don't understand sold for medicinal purposes. Still common on late night TV.


    --Jerry
  • razzle
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    Snake oil or not, I got a charge out of it...image
    Markets (governments) can remain irrational longer than an investor can remain solvent.
  • Ibnemo
    Ibnemo Posts: 70 ✭
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    I was Shockedimage
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  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So I should send the dead CR2032 batteries from my garage door opener to ANACS?

    Checked out the link that StubbyMcN posted. Pity the specimens on that page have been polished, because now they'll only get "Details" grades. Most interesting, however, was list of things it cures, including "Female Complaints." Suddenly this becomes one of the most powerful and significant amulets in the history of mankind!
    John
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  • savoyspecial
    savoyspecial Posts: 7,374 ✭✭✭✭
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    >>was list of things it cures, including "Female Complaints." Suddenly this becomes one of the most powerful and significant amulets in the history of mankind!>>



    nice messydesk, i missed that........worth it's weight in gold!

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • GFourDriver
    GFourDriver Posts: 2,366 ✭
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    People believed that electricity and radiation was good for you during the early 1900's.

    <<<A century ago radioactivity was new, exciting and good for you--at least if you believed the people selling radium pendants for rheumatism, all-natural radon water for vigor, uranium blankets for arthritis and thorium-laced medicine for digestion (you don't even want to know about the radioactive suppositories). >>>

  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,168 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Re-volting!

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    (even though I have one in inventory---LOL)
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • keets
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    some people still wear copper bracelets for reasons similar to what was expected from the Boyd's Battery. they are common enough to be found occasionally at larger shows, the trouble is that you won't find them if you hang around exclusively in the High-Rent-District. my Numismatic experience has been that perhaps the coolest and certainly the most esoteric items aren't often found with the biggest, best dealers, so take a stroll in the $500 table area sometime.
  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>some people still wear copper bracelets for reasons similar to what was expected from the Boyd's Battery. >>



    They actually do work. It's called the placebo effect.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • IrishMikey
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    << <i>Re-volting!

    image

    (even though I have one in inventory---LOL) >>




    Ouch! That's pretty bad, Tom.
  • MrSpud
    MrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
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    I have one of those, it's cool.
  • Lewy
    Lewy Posts: 594 ✭
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    I am rather interested in the EF-40 grade. I wonder how they did that, and what an MS-66 and an VG-10 would look like.
  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    Looks cleaned.

    Seriously.


    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!

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