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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1622713, member: 66&quot;]Bowers was talking about the collecting interests in the the 1790&#039;s.&nbsp; Hillary died in 1963 at the age of 20 which means that he bought it probably sometime after 1953.&nbsp; Believe me by that time there was a BIG interest in US collecting and even then the 1796 half cent was a major rarity.&nbsp; So if one turned up in a dealers hands then, it would still have been a big deal and would most likely have become known to the collecting world.&nbsp; So I would suspect he did NOT buy it from a dealer in coins.&nbsp; Possibly a dealer in antiques?&nbsp; British tokens from the 1790&#039;s at that time were selling for 50 cents apiece or less in Unc.&nbsp; It is possible that this turned up in a group of Conder tokens at an antique shop or flea market.&nbsp; being from the same time period if the seller didn&#039;t know coins they probably would have thought it to be around the same value.&nbsp; We would know more if we knew what else was in Hillary&#039;s collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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