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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4526520, member: 101855"]I don’t have any merchant shell cards, but I do have a few pieces issued for pre-Civil War candidates like Henry Clay and Zachary Taylor. </p><p><br /></p><p>These pieces are scarce because they are far more fragile than solid metal tokens. They are made by embossing two thin disks of metal and joining them together with a bezel. They are easily dented. I am surprised that the OP piece is as nice as it is given that it has had a hole drilled in it. Usually doing that to it would incurred more damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4526520, member: 101855"]I don’t have any merchant shell cards, but I do have a few pieces issued for pre-Civil War candidates like Henry Clay and Zachary Taylor. These pieces are scarce because they are far more fragile than solid metal tokens. They are made by embossing two thin disks of metal and joining them together with a bezel. They are easily dented. I am surprised that the OP piece is as nice as it is given that it has had a hole drilled in it. Usually doing that to it would incurred more damage.[/QUOTE]
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