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So, how'd I do on these? (Exonumistas take notice, please- I could use your help)

lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
Paid 21 bucks for these six pieces and four or five others not shown (Canadian tokens and stuff).

Any help with dates for the undated pieces, relative rarity, and values would be appreciated, and of course random opinions are fine, too.

I thought these were fun. This batch was part of a much bigger oldtimey collection of several hundred pieces, mostly foreign. There was a low grade Fugio cent in the lot, too, but the guy who sold it to me kept that. He bought all of it from a "little old lady". Must've been her husband's, 'cause a lot of the coins were in old school paper envelopes and there were a bunch of old index cards.

Note that I've gotten so frustrated with my photography that I am back to the trusty old scanner for a while. It makes nice clear pictures but they look a little flat sometimes.


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Yeah, I know- this last one is German. It appears to have been good for one glass of Culmbacher, whatever that is. Doesn't sound very tasty. BTW, the teeny-tiny lettering on the reverse of the German piece says "HANNECK 1 B" or "HANNECK 1 8", if that helps.

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    TopdollarpaidTopdollarpaid Posts: 603 ✭✭✭
    Good deal!
    Randy Conway

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    RunnersDadRunnersDad Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    Great deal indeed! Anytime you can grab 6+ Civil War Tokens/Store Cards for 21 dollars you did well!
    Mike

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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You did VERY WELL INDEEDimage
    I don't have time to give you the HTT numbers on the first 3 but that was a heck of a buy for $26

    If Broadstruck doesn't come online and give you the HTT numbers by morning, I willimage

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yay! Token Goddess in da house! I was hopin' you'd come along. image

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    melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019
    Lord M,

    I don't know anything to amount to anything about tokens but - anytime you can get 6 of anything I like for $26 you have done well.
    Congratulations on the pick up.

    Ron



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    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,163 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't know anything to amount to anything about tokens but - anytime you can get 6 of anything I like for $26 you have done well. >>



    Actually it was $21, for these six and maybe four or five others not shown. image

    I can think of a few things I wouldn't want six of, for any amount of money! image

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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    Hope this helps LordM

    Civil war token 510H-1a R5 (score!)
    Ruggles, HT-307 R1
    Richards, HT-150 R2
    Wall St, HT-294 (1837) R1

    Yep thats a beer token from the town of the same name, I guess C and K are inter changable.

    Edited to add, not sure of other drink token, gay 90's?

    Also edited to add, in my little world you deserve a big You Suck! for bagging those at that price image
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whoa! Thanks!

    What's an R5 CWT supposed to be worth, anyway, ballpark?

    I know that one has some verdigris issues.

    That's why I only figured that one at two dollars. image

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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    Your HT-307... Goldbully as I like to call it even with issues will most likely fetch $40+

    The R-1 rating is BS as this is a tough token and extremely tough in CH AU and even more so in UNC.
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hope this helps LordM

    Civil war token 510H-1a R5 (score!)
    Ruggles, HT-307 R1
    Richards, HT-150 R2
    Wall St, HT-294 (1837) R1

    Yep thats a beer token from the town of the same name, I guess C and K are inter changable.

    Edited to add, not sure of other drink token, gay 90's?

    Also edited to add, in my little world you deserve a big You Suck! for bagging those at that price image >>





    Well, it looks like your getting to know your Rulau book lotsoluckimage
    Comes in handy............aren't you glad I made you buy itimageimage

    You did great oh lordimage Congrat's!
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Well, it looks like your getting to know your Rulau book lotsoluckimage
    Comes in handy............aren't you glad I made you buy itimageimage >>



    Some of us don't need no stinking book, but LotsofLuck did well matching the pics to the numbers!image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Whoa! Thanks!

    What's an R5 CWT supposed to be worth, anyway, ballpark?

    I know that one has some verdigris issues.

    That's why I only figured that one at two dollars. image >>



    Well you know, what someone will pay image Although the CWT is a R5 it lacks the "visual appeal" that sell for stronger dollars . For example, put a dog, fish, or boat on a R1 and it will smoke your R5 on ebay. With that said, $20ish? You did well Grasshopper image
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Well, it looks like your getting to know your Rulau book lotsoluckimage
    Comes in handy............aren't you glad I made you buy itimageimage >>



    Some of us don't need no stinking book, but LotsofLuck did well matching the pics to the numbers!image >>













    Well............Broastruck, all I can say is............IN your face................image
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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    Ok, i'm busted, but I beat you two to the draw, Hah!
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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>image >>



    Your HT-307... Goldbully as I like to call it even with issues will most likely fetch $40+

    The R-1 rating is BS as this is a tough token and extremely tough in CH AU and even more so in UNC. >>




    Broadstruck knows, he sold me a sweet one in AU image
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks again, y'all.

    Y'know, the deuce of it is, I've got the Rulau encyclopedia around here... somewhere. Heaven knows where. Probably under a mountain of junk. You could call my home Clutter Central.

    I've got somebody who wants the Brunswick pool table token but neither he nor I have any clue of what sort of funds should change hands. Should I ask a million-bajillion-squintillion dollars?

    As to a $20 estimate on the CWT, why, that don't bother me at all. Ten times what I paid, it is.

    Edit to add: I suppose I should begin some archaeological excavations in the bedroom to see where Rulau is hiding. I'll probably find him in a layer dating back to 2008 or so, underneath some dustbunnies the size of real bunnies, and maybe some long-dried cat barf.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good score LordM.... nice to happen once in a while... Cheers, RickO

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