Like many Civil War tokens, it may have been. The piece is cent sized. It also may have been carried as a picket piece.
This piece is listed as a Civil War Token and as a political token. There are two minor varieites of it. Both varieties are somewhat scarce, and...
The U.S. Mint System struck millions of these coins. They existed only because of the politics. They were the product of a political compromise....
I don't have any "WAMs". I'll have to find out what those are.
Lincoln Cents 1909 to 1950. Someone else did 1950 to date some years ago, so they wanted cover the start of the series.
Yes, and I am scheduled to speak.
It's been squished.
Here is a work on progress. The red World War II OPA tokens are placeholders for pieces that I have in slabs. I need four coins to finish....
Yes, gold dollars have been plagued by counterfeits from the time I started collecting in the 1960s and well before then. The counterfeiter can...
According to Doug Winter, there is only one die variety for the 1852-D gold dollar. This one does not match it. The date and mint make are wrong....
I’ve read the price was something like 65 cents per hundred. Most, but not all CWTs were lighter than the U.S. Government cents.
There is a story, now debunked, about a New York City merchant who issued tens of thousands of tokens. A street car company took large numbers of...
The merchants who issued them paid for most of the patriotic pieces. Some were issued for political purposes, but if they mention a specific...
Thanks. It is graded MS-63. It was the “No L” variety which was among the first 10,000 pieces issued for circulation.
Carelessly made, probably as quick as possible.
Emil Segal was a fairly prolific Civil War die and token issuer. Emil and his three brothers immigrated from Germany before the Civil War. His...
[ATTACH] I was a dealer for about 16 years. One of my "side specialties" was Civil War tokens. I always had about 500 of them in stock. I...
Years ago I put together the 5 piece type set of the four American gold eagles plust the American silver eagle for $650. That's 1.85 ounces of...
I have purchased three of the four coins for the American Gold Eagle type set with the new “eagle head” reverse. A lot of dealers don’t carry them...
Here is what I have. I'm in Flordida and things are kind of stressed right now. All I'll give is dates as noted and the pictures. 225-215 BCE...
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