I just couldnt resist this. Quite a bit of history here! I searched this on google, and found that NGC slabs this guy, I wonder if PCGS will also?
NGC has already slabbed these. They have also slabbed similar restrikes with "COPY" stamped into the reverse (and that is not the only item they have slabbed with "COPY" either). I have never seen any exonumia slabs by PCGS, but I did not check out their site to see if they accept exonumia or not. Hopefully they never will.
Yes, there is quite a bit of history associated with those. In fact, there is a book out about Lovett, his work, and includes the Confederate cent. I have a copy, but for some reason, I did not have it entered in my library list, so I can not give you the auther/ publishing date, but it is a fairl recent publishing, within the past couple of years. I remember it had a dark blue cover with a large depiction of a Confederate cent on it. I looked all around where it should have been, but could not locate it.
It is interesting to think this 'could' have been the coin used by a New nation, the Confederate States of America. It would have been a pretty coin, as nice as the indian head. Ill bet if the rebs would have won, they would have had a Jefferson Davis Cent, in 1908! Thats a neat thought, eh?
yeah, I like it. there are two others on ebay now, one a goldine and the other a silver. PCGS only has numbers for the original and the 1874 restrikes listed...so I guess they wont slab. So I get the actually Touch the coin (wow)
I have to be honest here in saying that the copper and silver of these copies have sold for years and years for a few dollars each. I'm really shocked NGC would mess with them. The fees would run several times over the value. Am I missing something?
I suppose I am interested because they provide a real, tangable link to 'ol Dixieland. Plus, they are now nearly 50 years old, and struck in limited quantities. The 150th annv. of the War of the Rebellion will be upon us in only a few years, and all things Civl War will be hot once again. I'll tell you for a fact, if I put one of these down on the table of a sutler at a civil war reenactment, and the right Reb reenactor wanted it.....Hell, they would pay any price. they are a weird bunch, I know because I done tintypes of them for years, at $50 a pop.
