I'll second to recommendation for George Selgin's book "Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, The Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern...
1156 is listed as Common.
Definitely Middlesex 1156. Both the shield and the bush that Britannia is holding are different between 1155 and 1156. Yours matches that of...
Just a small time world collector - somewhere around 10,000 - more or less.
The tokens issued by Virgil Earp were part of a talk on Western tokens given by Michael Wehner earlier this year at the British-American Token...
Those are the 7 that I have.
Looks like one of the gold toned Presidential "medals" put out by The Reader's Digest. I have 7 of them but not this one. All 7 of mine came on...
Cool pocket find! Were you in Tahiti recently? New Caledonia coins circulate in Tahiti also. At least that's where I picked up most of mine!...
jello - your token is Irish, made for the firm Camac, Kyan & Camac, a copper-mining company. The partners in the firm were Turner Camac, John...
I also have 1 of the type, dated 1947
I picked up the Warwickshire 372 the seller was offering [IMG] Yesterday I also received in the mail my previous purchase off of eBay - a...
Always good to verify the NGC attribution. NEN had a Pidcocks token for sale which is now listed by CRO as a MSex 420 when it is actually #430....
So you won that one! I only connected on one cheap one last night from that seller - a Wilkison.
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...
The correction to the edge lettering for this token is noted in the back of the D&H book in the Corrigenda. Depending on the publishing date of...
Separate names with a comma.
