Let's see your exonumia!

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Tropicana Vegas 1987

 

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That's a great set of companion pieces, Bill. It really adds to the whole history of the issuer. The whole set would fetch a pretty penny if you ever sold it I'm sure. It will make for an interesting story when you write it up. Love the history behind this stuff.
Brunk now lists three examples: 1823 Large Cent, and 1777 and 1806 2-Reales. Yours would be a fourth. Congrats on the new find.

Bruce

 

Nice additions,jester! The picture of the Fuld 133 makes it look copper to me too. The difference between the look of toned brass and copper is sometimes subtle, but still easy to differentiate. You'll be able to tell when you have it in-hand.

Bruce

 

Thanks for the update, Bruce. I wasn't aware of the two real pieces. I may well have missed that among Greg's updates. Winning rare pieces that are so few in number at auction is always fun, but that fun tends to be exceeded by the fun of discovering and occasionally acquiring great go-alongs, I find. The discovery and making connections is what drives my interest.

 

Over the years, I've owned four of the Lincoln, "Good for Another Heat" CWT's. I'd noticed variations in the color. Two were definitely brass, one appeared to be a mix, and one appeared to be copper. I never sought to check or slab the suspected copper piece. I flipped it to a dealer a few years ago. He thought it might be copper, too. Perhaps, one of those expensive metal content machines would now shed light on your piece, Jester?

Here's a pic of the one I thought to be a mix ....

 

That has a brass look to it, Bill. Nice token by the way.

Bruce

 

With the wear on the high spots and only copper close to the raised arts I would thing it was a plating job. Could be a flash plating job with the kits they use to sell at the hobby stores.
There is no such thing as a brass and copper mix of metals that would look like that.
There are 100's of alloys of brass and bronze Brass is copper and zinc of various per cent-ages, Bronzes are copper and tin mixes there are a lot of recognized alloys for both But due to the melting points of the melts and the way it behaves in a crucible it would be brass or bronze color through out. There are a number of alloys that were used back in Victorian times called and used for plating for cheap jewelry gilders metal and pinchbeck metal that have a more golden color, Now it is called Nu-gold

 

Eagles are my favorite!

 

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Another cruise ship to add to the limited edition section

 

Just for the heck of it I bought this hobo crap from China. They were listed as being copper copies. The 3 leg Buffalo is really bad.

 

Gotta love the Chinese, gives a whole new meaning to Daryl and his other brother Daryl's anything for a buck or two!

 

Agreed, my use of the word "mix" in this context is arguably questionable. I was using that word more in the figurative sense. As a decades-long collector of CWT's, it wasn't uncommon for me to acquire pieces that appeared to be more brassy than coppery. All I could go on was the color continuum or the "mix" if you will. There are wide variations in color for early coppers, half and large cents, too. I did occasionally run across some plated CWT's, but that "Good for Another Heat" piece wasn't plated. Tough call for me on the metal content, it was/is.

 

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Some time called a losers chip, when you walk away from a table empty handed and wallet they give you one! Both photo's taken at the same time, must have been a cloud passing by.

 

It appears to be working again, I hate computers!

 

Winfield Scott medal-a handful.

 

Any info on what CON stands for? Doesn't seem like a desirable branding acronym