My gratitude and heartfelt thanks goes out to @lordmarcovan for this Christmas surprise. I love early copper and I love coins with a story and this piece checks all those boxes. Thank you, Rob!
Great slave token and generous gift! I actually have one but no pics right now so I'll show a different one!
@lordmarcovan, that's one sweet gift. Kudos to you. @Randy Abercrombie, obviously you made it to someone's 'nice' list this year. Good job! Nice addition to anyone's collection.
Randy always makes my "nice" list. That antislavery HTT came from my own collection. I bought it at the FUN show in 2023. It was the only ANACS coin I had in my collection (with its departure, I'm now all PCGS/NGC). Here are my pictures of it. The slab is a little scuffy, and I was tempted to crack it out and hit the token with some Renaissance Wax to remove the overlying dirt on the slave lady's thigh, but in the end I left it alone. Both slab and loose dirt can be lived with.
Yep. Somebody was dyslexic with the punches! I was also told something about the strike- that these often don’t have the second 8 in the date on the reverse fully struck (I think it was), and thus this one has a better than average strike, apparently. Something like that.