With silver being on the upswing, I couldn't pass up the chance to trade out a little bit today. Or maybe I was bored... but likely a bit of both. Anyways, I brought some cull dimes and halves up to the LCS and came home with these. Technically speaking, I suppose I didn't get any "coins" in return, as one is a hard times and the other is just bullion. He had a few other items that were out of my price range for today, so hopefully they'll still be there when I make it back next time. Anyways, here's today's stuff! Harshly cleaned anti-slavery token. The cleaning doesn't really bother me, although I bet it looked far better beforehand! A 1-gram bar in a bezel, slightly above melt (at the time). One of the other things he had was a (1944) Henning nickel! I wanted it, but he said he'd hold it for me until I get back there. Another was about to open up Pandora's box for me... some ancient coins that drew my eye. Something like a 400-600BC Medusa coin, in another gold bezel. I thought it looked pretty cool!
That coin brings me back to my childhood. National Geographic. The 3rd world Playboy Magazine, that's what we called it.
What's up with the backwards "N" in united? I'm admittedly stupid when it comes to tokens or anything exonumia in general.
Yep I have one of them slave tokens, cool piece of history and look at that gram of gold! , I bought my wife one a few years ago for $40, those days are long gone now!
I noticed that too for the first time, and I've seen these posted before. Looked at a few on Heritage and they're all like that, but on the male version the N is normal. Strange.
