Howdy peeps, An interestiong series to collect is British Evasives, from the late 1700's to early 1800's and Notre Dame has a nice write-up on them: http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/CtfBrit.intro.html That series is one of the hottest ones currently and the prices can sometimes go through the roof, like on this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/British-1771-George-III-Regal-Half-Penny-US-Interest_W0QQitemZ350248239843 I've never seen one like that before and I don't have a Cobwright to check it so if anyone has the book, please let us know what is said about it. :thumb: But as you can see, that one is already well over a grand and it will be interesting to see what the final price is, since that one could easily go through the roof. :goofer: I have quite a few evasives in my collection but nothing as screwed up as that one and the more screwed up they are, the higher the value usually. Ribbit
That is a very interesting evasive! I don't collect these but I do run across a number of them when searching eBay. They are of interest to me though because of their relationship to conder tokens.
Well I checked Cobwright and I can see why it is going so high. Before Cobwright the only reference on these was Atkin's Work on Eighteenth Century Tokens from 1890. According to Cobwright this piece is Atkin's 230 and it has been untraced since the publication of the Atkins book. So it is quite possibly unique and hasn't been seen in 119 years.
I've noticed the Conder tokens gaining in price daily. This evasive is really something, it's amazing! Great find Toad! I really like keeping up on tokens as some coin collectors don't deal with them at all. So the tokens always turn out to be great conversation pieces. I'd go nuts in England!!
That lil boogher will soar! I knew it was a good one, I just didn't know how good. :hammer: I run across so many like that, where I can tell it's good but I have no clue how good. There are too many coins for me to be able keep up with everything. :goofer: Ribbit
I spoke with Jeff Rock and he said there are about 15 known but that one is most likely the finest known, so it will still go high, since the deeper pocket more serious collecters will be vying for it. Ribbit
Thats good to hear,i invested in several better condition ones a while back.Id almost forgotten i was ever into copper:whistle:
