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You callin' me a 'twit' Yak?



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Here's another counterstamp I picked up in Philly at the A.N.A. show, this one from Steve Hayden. This is a harder piece to find than the "W.D. Rapp" stamp I posted earlier, and is the first one I've ever seen. There are only nine documented examples all on Spanish 2-Reales as mine is. My 1797 isn't listed so I'll be sure it gets added.

Dr. William C. Pierce manufactured and sold his hair "juice" in Boston throughout the 1850's. He seems to have been out of business or passed away by 1860 as he doesn't appear in city directories after that time. He advertised extensively in Boston newspapers especially in the late 1850's. This is a nice pickup for my collection and was lucky to see it at the show.

Bruce

 

Bruce,

I like counter stamps on reales, it's amazing that they were still circulating in the 1850s! I especially like the Hair tonic stamp, nice pick up!

 

I do too Joseph. The Spanish Reales and Seated Liberty Quarters or Halves are my favorite coins to collect with counterstamps. Thanks for your comments.

Bruce

 

Here is a French jeton from 1629 -

 

Great looking tokens forum. Here's a couple of mine. :thumb:

 

Here's an interesting set of 14 Masonic counterstamps I recently bought from a well known Florida token collector. The first picture shows the two different styles of the Masonic square and ruler symbol that appears on the reverse of all 14 pieces. The obverses are all different as shown in the other 4 pictures. Unfortunately the seller had no history on the set. He told me they were in a large lot of tokens he acquired from another collector. The dies are nicely cut and are made smaller than the coins they're stamped on which gives them a nice "deep dish" appearance. They're all struck on Lincoln Cents dated from 1987 thru 2002, so were probably issued about 10 years ago. I thought they were interesting and somewhat unusual so decided to share them with you guys. Thanks for looking.

Bruce

 

One of my favorites. I purchased it from a fellow CT member BillZach several years ago.

 

Isn't that one his avatar?

 

Could very well be. I haven't seen his avatar in a while.

 

Here are two more of my favorites.

 

The Samuel Hart Playing Card Company & Its Tokens

Samuel Hart was a renowned playing card maker during the 19th century. Many of the features that we take for granted today were revolutionized by him.

Prior to the Civil War, Hart emitted two major varieties of Merchant Cards, all struck in a variety of metals and silvering.

The first two pictured below come from his first set of emissions between 1854-57.

Specimen #1 was struck in copper.



Specimen #2 was struck in white metal.



Specimen #3, pictured below, was struck during the Civil War. Cataloged as NY630AGa-1h, the specimen is currently unlisted in Fuld's Civil War Token Storecard reference.

Struck on hard rubber, it is the only Samuel Hart CWT specimen that I have personally seen, and only the second one that I'm aware of that exists.

It is NGC slabbed, graded at AU-55. The opaque linear lines seen across the specimen's fields are scratches on the NGC slab, rather than the specimen itself.

Hailing from the Alan Bleviss Collection, I acquired and received it last week.



For more information about Samuel Hart and his playing card tokens, you can go here: The Samuel Hart Playing Cards Company & Its Tokens.

Thanks,

Cheetah

 

19th century jeton of Bonaparte.

 

Some great looking exonumia guy's!

 

Don't let our Chinese friends in on this one.........

 

I hear you Ken...mums the word.

Bruce

 

Here is a rather spacey one of silver...