CWT - 1863 - Congress - Value?

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  1. AtlantaMan

    AtlantaMan Member

    Hi All -
    Here is my third of four postings for today. Any thoughts as to condition and value? CWT - 1863 - Congress - Obverse.jpg CWT - 1863 - Congress - Reverse.jpg
     
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  3. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    The Fuld numbers on this one are 233 / 312 a. It is an R-1, very common token. The sharpness grade is VF, but it has been cleaned, which takes a lot off the value, which might be $5 or $6 retail.
     
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  4. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    A common token with some wear and one that I do not own.
     
  5. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here's the example in my collection. Believe me, I am far, far from having a really huge collection. I collect the varieties that interest me.

    Capital first All.jpg

    Here's an interesting element to the Civil War Token collecting hobby.

    There was a man in northern Indiana, named Henry Higgins, who was sort of a jack of many trades. He made eyeglasses and barometers for farmers to help them predict the weather.

    Higgins also made Civil War tokens. He made some pieces completely on his own. He made others by copying designs that he liked. His tokens are called "Indiana primitives." He copied the designs he liked by pressing the token face into the a blank die made of softened steel. The design lost some detail, but he still had a copy.

    Here is an example of Higgin's "Capital token." The obverse is a copy die with the word "CAPITAL" added to it. The reverse is one of Higgin's homemade dies. There has been speculation that Higgins had a Higley copper, since he used the phrase, "Value me as you please," which appeared on those classic, rare tokens.

    234 234 All.jpg
     
  6. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    PLEAS. Like criminal defendants do from time to time.
     
  7. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Higgins ran out of room. That’s the “primitive” part.
     
  8. Kentucky

    Kentucky Well-Known Member

    My favorite and almost only one is the Spot/Spoot - appeals to my juvenile sense of humor
    civl war token back.jpg civil war token front.jpg
     
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  9. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    I had only one decent example of the “spoot” when I was a dealer, and I sold it. Since then I ran into another that was in an MS-65 red holder (NGC). The dealer had bought it for a want list customer at a Winter FUN show. I had no shot at it. Most of the “spoot” pieces I have seen were damaged.
     
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  10. Kentucky

    Kentucky Well-Known Member

    I think I got these from @stldanceartist in the "for sale" forum.
     
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