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Welcome to the forum. I've studied Civil War tokens a bit, more from a reading perspective than actively collecting them (though I do own a few). I've written about them; also published Q. … (View Post)

Great report . . . great coins and tokens . . . and now I'm hungry for an Italian lunch with wine! Thanks for sharing your experience, Charmy. (View Post)

I've talked with Ken Bressett and Dave Bowers about these interesting pieces before. The tokens were so ubiquitous for so long, it's likely they were minted and wholesaled by the thousands … (View Post)

That's a good point. Bowers offers this estimate on the 1909-S V.D.B. Lincoln cent: "Probably 100,000 or more exist in grades from AG through VF, many of these having been plucked out of ci… (View Post)

Has the "Buy the best quality you can afford" chicken come home to roost? Does that attitude/advice weaken the demand for coins that would have been called "collector quality" 50 … (View Post)