A "shot in the dark"

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by longnine009, Apr 23, 2006.

  1. longnine009

    longnine009 Darwin has to eat too. Supporter

    Any old-timers remember Coinvention 1965 or the Newburg Coin Club?

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  3. Mikjo0

    Mikjo0 Numismatist

    Looks like 1905 to me,not 1965 so your chances of running into an old timer that remembers it are pretty poor.But ya never know.
     
  4. satootoko

    satootoko Retired

    Just Carl is always talking about being old, but I don't think he's old enough to remember that. Old Dan and I are definitely too young. :D
     
  5. longnine009

    longnine009 Darwin has to eat too. Supporter

    No, it's 1965, the scanner just didn't pick it all up. Roy it's interesting that you mentioned OldDan. There's a "Trickster" in this token somewhere of the OldDan caliber. That's intended as a compliment GrandMaster "D". :smile If you look at the obverse of this token along with the reverse you would be inclined to think that the Newburg Coin Club was from New York.

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    However the Old Hasbrook House is in Newburgh N.Y and not Newburg. Newburg, however, was a spelling error that George Lovett made when he cut the die for his own Washington Headquarters series which included the Old Hasbrook House at Newburg (sic) N.Y 1783 and was issue #10 in his series.

    I believe the Newburg Coin Club was from Newburg Pennsylvania and some of the good ole boys there used Lovett's spelling error on #10 to issue an imitation of what was going on at the time of Gus Sage and George Lovett which was a muling mania. Lovett was doing it in a big way. He was issuing all kinds of mules from Sage's Historical tokens and was even muling the reverses of Sage's tokens to his and Robert's George Washington obverses.

    Whether they intended it or not it seems to me that the Newburg coin club, (if they really were from PA.) muled their state and club name (spelling correct) to an historical landmark in N.Y. And perhaps even to Lovett's #10 token. Although I don't know if Lovett's #10 looked like the token in the scan or not.

    Pennsylvania, IMO was hands down the most prolific state for coin club tokens and medals in the 60's. Somewhere in all this I just know there's a 70 year former Newburg Coin Club member who's been snickering for 40 years: "Heeehehehe, they still think Newburg Coin Club was in New York. Heeehehehehe yeah right, and the Jersey boardwalk is in Allentown. Hehehehehehhehe :headbang:
     
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