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<p>[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 199311, member: 2100"]Got room for another Ed? I don't have much to add to the linked site's info, but I do have a little.</p><p><br /></p><p>The site listed Baker 937, which was for issues made in bronze. Baker 937A is the same token, but made of Nickel/B (plated), and there is also a baker 937B that used white metal. The site listed the issuer as Whitehead & Hoag Co., of Newark, N.J., but my book lists that company as the entity that struck these issues, not the actual issuer. While values were given for many of these Washington birth bicentennials, the Baker 937 series have no values given. Similar tokens were generally in the $20 -$75 range for uncirculated, with just a couple being higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>The orientation in flipping it side to side is known as "medal orientation". Nothing is said about being holed as issued, and the example in the ref. photo does not have a hole, so at least some exist without holes. Some other similar series were issued with holes. My opinion is that yours was issued with the hole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cwtokenman, post: 199311, member: 2100"]Got room for another Ed? I don't have much to add to the linked site's info, but I do have a little. The site listed Baker 937, which was for issues made in bronze. Baker 937A is the same token, but made of Nickel/B (plated), and there is also a baker 937B that used white metal. The site listed the issuer as Whitehead & Hoag Co., of Newark, N.J., but my book lists that company as the entity that struck these issues, not the actual issuer. While values were given for many of these Washington birth bicentennials, the Baker 937 series have no values given. Similar tokens were generally in the $20 -$75 range for uncirculated, with just a couple being higher. The orientation in flipping it side to side is known as "medal orientation". Nothing is said about being holed as issued, and the example in the ref. photo does not have a hole, so at least some exist without holes. Some other similar series were issued with holes. My opinion is that yours was issued with the hole.[/QUOTE]
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