Civil War Tokens

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  1. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

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  3. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Maybe, and only maybe in the intent of education do I post a coin that I do not own.
    99.999% of all images I have posted are mine.
    I bought this small head liberty when I bought the Scoville.
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  4. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    I'll pm you my address. Since I live in PA and with Christmas a few days away....
    Lol
     
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  5. jrw711

    jrw711 Member

    My records show I have CWT 58/439 a, R-3, but I doubt it is AU or higher.
     
  6. COOPER12

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    message me if you find it
     
  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Man, oh man, I miss my Monitor.

    Gotta get another of this type one day.

    (I did get my Peacock HTT in trade for this, though.)

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    Here's another "bygone" from more recently.

    I suddenly find myself bereft of CWTs. I shall have to do something about that.

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  10. COOPER12

    COOPER12 Well-Known Member

    not mine but I wish it was
    looks like a solid AU-55 to me maybe AU-58
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  11. markr

    markr Active Member

    I have a few. I just won this one recently; it's one of two I have in PCGS slabs. It's graded as MS 65.

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  12. Pickin and Grinin

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    Thats a helluva piece at MS65.
     
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  13. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    This 1864 McClellan presidential campaign token is listed as a Civil War token. It is a scarce one that is rated as an R-6. McClellan's running mate was George Pendleton, but the die sinker mistakenly called him "J. H. Pendleton."

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    Political token and button makers frequently produce pieces for both sides. Here is the Lincoln counterpart to the McClellan piece. There are two minor varieties of the Lincoln die.

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    Here is the second Lincoln variety. It is paired with the same Johnson variety. There are minor differences in the spacing of the letters with the portrait. The initials of the engraver, "R.L.", (Robert Lovett) are on the first piece and omitted on the second.

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  14. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    Extremely nice!
     
  15. Chris Winkler

    Chris Winkler Well-Known Member

    Is there a guide to building a good collection of these similar to David Halls "A Mercenaries Guide to the Rare Coin Market"?
     
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  16. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    back 40 years ago when i was a full time dealer, these coins were very common and could be had in the 2-6,00 range at any coin show, mostly in junk boxes, wish i had kept my tokens, i sold all of them roughly 35 years ago..a whiole box of them and grand union and pathmark food stamp coin tokens, and miscellaneous medals and such for 40.00 for close to 200 items....looking back i feel quite ill, lol
     
  17. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Most of what you had was probably the common varieties in circulated condition. Littleton Coin used to mail out buy price lists to the dealers on their list years ago. The last one I got was offering to pay $7.00 for pieces in EF. From what I have heard, their “EF” was really fussy and more like an AU.

    What I’m saying is that you could get more for you sold back then, but you are not out a fortune unless you had thousands of them. Even then, most dealers would not want the thousands of tokens all at one time.

    The rarer ones and the high grade ones in slabs are the pieces that bring the really big bucks. I have some really rare ones, and I’ve seen the same varieties offered for many times what I have in them. The trouble is they have to be certified in Mint State to have a chance at those prices.
     
  18. Pickin and Grinin

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    This one is MS64
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  19. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Sounds like we did the same thing!
     
  20. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here is an example of a Civil War token that just sold for over $1,500 in a Heritage auction. It is the John Mathews soda water piece. I wrote an award winning article about this piece for "The Civil War Token Journal" more than a decade ago.

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    When I was a dealer, I had a very nice example of this piece sit in my inventory forever. My price was $50 to $75, I don't remember exactly. At any rate, one that was slabbed as an Unc. with very little more red on that this one just sold for $1,500.

    Get it in a slab marked "Mint State," and you will get a big price for it.
     
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