This caught my eye at a local antique store in a display case. Never owned one of these, but I liked how this one looked. With help from Numista and the Great Collections auction archives I was able to identify it. Compared to the few VF, AU and even MS examples sold at GC, this one has a very nice reverse, especially the leaves and shield regions. The pedestal on the obverse also is much more well defined than most of those examples. Some of those at GC have obvious cleanings, excuse me, ‘conservations’, using verdi care or a similar methods and I don’t like how some of them look. So at this point I don’t plan on doing that to this coin since I don’t see any hidden corrosion. I’ll call it a nicely struck EF specimen based on the VF and AU examples at the GC archives.
Normally I'd say VF but these tokens sometimes lack detail even in higher grades. It very well could be ab XF. A great CWT no matter how it grades. Bruce
