Anyone own one of these beauties? Just saying hey to you all, and admiring this beautiful Token that says it all for me! How about you, do you collect Tokens? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1860-GEORG...830969?hash=item1cf396ce39:g:TzoAAOSwn~5fZuBc
Not entirely sure why he decided to use the Witch motif here.... Is he trying to say coin collectors are witches and wizards? If so, I'm afraid my letter to Hogwarts must have gotten lost in the mail!
Yep! And medals... and jetons... Belgium (Liège, Chapter of St. Lambert): copper méreau or communion token; memento mori, 1686 (PCGS XF45) Germany (Nürnberg): silver Augsburg Confession medal by Daniel Dockler the Younger, 1730 PCGS AU50; population 1 with none higher as of August 2020. Great Britain (Chichester, Sussex): copper Conder token ("Chichester Halfpenny"), 1794 PCGS MS63 BN; population 4 with 4 higher as of August 2020. United States (New York): nickel silver private pattern cent, Feuchtwanger's Composition, 1837 PCGS AU53; population 47 with 390 higher as of August 2020. France: gilt bronze specimen medal by Antoine Bovy, for Napoleon Bonaparte's 1840 Paris funeral PCGS SP64; population 1 with none higher as of August 2020. United States (Nashville, TN): brass merchant token, Francisco & Whitman, Hatters; ca. 1852-1853 PCGS MS65; population 1 with none higher as of August 2020. Australia (Melbourne): copper penny trade token; John Andrew & Co., Drapers, 1862 (NGC MS62 BN) France (Compagnie La Prévoyance): silver jeton (insurance token) engraved by Paulin Tasset, 1869 PCGS MS63; population 2 with none higher as of August 2020. New Zealand (Christchurch): bronze merchant token; Milner & Thompson's Music Depot, 1881 PCGS MS63 BN; population 2 with none higher as of August 2020. United States: copper "Hard Times" token; C.D. Peacock Jeweler, Chicago, "1837" (struck ca. 1902) PCGS MS63 BN; population 1 with none higher as of August 2020. Germany (Westphalia): gilt bronze hyperinflationary 10,000-mark notgeld token, 1923 PCGS MS64; population 51 with 98 higher as of August 2020. Germany (Weimar Republic): specimen gold medal memorializing the schooner "Niobe" shipwreck, 1932 PCGS SP66; population 1 with 1 higher as of August 2020. United States (Champion Paper Co.): silver WW2 deployment medal presented to Logan Robertson, 1942 Unpublished type; ineligible for certification. Dr. Robertson was my grandfather.
This is the first jeton I acquired about 20 years ago. 16gm, 33mm, Silver 1ARGENT, Privy: Cornucopia, Paris: 1880, A. Patey
Alas, I’m mailing that one and the gold Niobe off tomorrow. Had to sell some stuff. But the money will be helping me finance my new home office space, which is something I’ve wanted for 20+ years.
What sort of lighting did you use for the second set of images? Can you "shed any light" on why these are worth so much? (Pun intended!)
The 2nd set of photos is axial-like photography. These tokens are worth whatever people are willing to pay. The design is popular and the tokens are quite scarce. The one posted by the OP in this thread is not “worth” what it is offered for, thus it hasn’t sold. In the condition of the OP eBay example, the token is probably reasonably valued at $600-$800.
If anybody wants to waste 15 minutes of their life watching an old token (and some other, less interesting stuff) being dug up, here you go. (You might want to put on the closed captioning to make some sense of my mumbling.) (If not, here's text and pictures of a different token find. Also a bit overlong, but you can skim through and just look at the pictures if you don't want to read all my drivel.)
For anyone interested in more information on the Witch on the broomstick token look here - http://ghlovett3.blogspot.com/p/historical-discovery-of-ameica.html
Yes, I have one. The woman on the broom looks like the last boss I had when I was working for a big company. She was meaner than a junk yard dog. When she got the can a couple of years after I left the company, I am sure that there was applause all over the company. She had made a lot of enemies.
