It is id ZCD in Alpert and Smith's Video Arcade, Pinball, Slot Machine, and Other Amusement Tokens of North America. The Alladin's Castle arcade...
Money, or really the lack of it, also had quite an impact during the Civil War, greatly affecting the ability to carry on everyday business...
In checking a bit, I see that NGC will assign MS grades to holed tokens, as well as slabbing restrikes of tokens that originally were made 100...
Wow, almost as good a rate as I got last Saturday at an auction. 20 decent Frankies for $3 each, and 35 Mercs and 5 Roosies for $.40 each. A fair...
I don't follow regular coinage, but I've seen holed tokens in NGC slabs. Thankfully, PCGS has not entered the exonumia arena AFAIK.
Thanks for taking the time to post another well written and informative article Clinker. Quite a few attractive pieces and interesting background...
Thanks for the interesting read Clinker, and a belated "Happy Birthday" to you ! Another interesting bit of trivia concerning this set, is that...
Cwts can be very tough, especially to those unfamiliar with them. No real grading guidelines, hundreds of different dies produced by many...
Just to expand a bit regarding what asciibaron posted. The id number for your token is IL25Ba. The letter "A" on the token indicates this token is...
I don't collect Lincoln cents, but I do have a fairly decent grade early Lincoln.
I don't see a pic, so I can not do anything, but I do have a reference or two on German war tokens. Post large clear pics and I will try to help...
From Stephen Alpert and Lawrence Elman's "Tokens and Medals, a Guide to the identification and Values of United States Exonumia". These are...
Rulau's Standard Catalog is a very good reference for what it covers, aside from the cwts. I posted a quote from the Rulau catalog in the "new...
Well, if the U.S. Mint made this medal, it was not in their first century of production. They only made one Alexander Hamilton medal (MT-24)...
I typically use XF, and XF seems to be used much more commonly than EF in exonumia circles. But then we are kind of in our own little world.
I may have some info on this, but its getting a bit late to look it up tonight. I will try to find it tomorrow (well, later today).
I don't want to come across as being contradictory CoinGal, but IMO Rulau's token book is nearly worthless for identifying cwts, and Rulau even...
While often times info does not change much, I would like to mention that the cwt books shown in GDJMSP's links are not the most current editions,...
Check out the Civil War Token Society site for books - http://www.cwtsociety.com/books.html A membership can more than pay for itself with the...
The token that you have is id 18/304a. It is rated as an R-7 rarity token, indicating that 10-20 examples are known. While in general I believe...
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