1841 HT Tokens - where to sell and value?...

Hi
Here are two 1841 Daniel Webster tokens. As far as I can tell, the first is classified as HT-16 and the second as HT-18 per PCGS as they have different reverses.

I would be interested in how you would grade each and the potential value if slabbed and at auction, but more importantly, which specific auction house to use. Generally, I lean on Great Collections, but they don't seem to do much business at all in tokens.

Many thanks!!!

 

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Don't waste your money on getting either one slabbed because they will come back as "cleaned." The first one is badly scratched. It looks like someone was thinking about crossing off the "NOT" over the cent and lost interest. They did that back on the day to try to pass the piece as a cent, not a token. It's unusual to see that on this variety, however. The usual piece looked like this, closer to the large cent design.



This one would grade, but it's not worth it because it would only get an EF.



The common variety Hard Times Tokens really have to be Choice Mint State to be worth the grading fee. Even so, I was able to buy this for about $350.

 

As an avid token collector, I've found that the best place to buy and sell tokens is eBay.

 

Only if you are very well educated, and if you are prepared to be out bid buy one cent because of sniping. I HATE eBay. Life is too short to put up with it.

 

Unfortunately 19 times out of 20, if someone has a rare token for sale that I want, it's on eBay. Especially because most of the tokens I look for are sold by antique dealers, rare token dealers that only use eBay and heirs of token collections that already have eBay accounts and they don't know where else to sell them.

 

Nice tokens. I’d probably look at one of the coin auction houses.