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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7410917, member: 101855"]The piece you have is made of German silver, and it is moderately scarce. In German silver it is rated as an R-4, 201 to 500 pieces known.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you might have suspected, German silver contains no silver. It is an ally of copper, nickel and maybe some zinc or other white metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect the Lincoln Civil War tokens only by the obverse varieties. There are 12, maybe 13, Lincoln Civil War token obverse dies. Here is my example of obverse die #127. This one is numbered 127/248a. It is made of copper, and it is by far the most common Lincoln variety that was made during the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288188[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Your token is married to the #177 die, which is one of the George Washington statue varieties. There are four of those, and some of them are common.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your piece is flatly struck with a lot of detail missing, especially on the Washington side. German silver is hard and difficult to strike. These tokens are never sharp, even in high grade. That's why I have passed on them as a collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>My goal was to get all of the Lincoln obverse die varieties. If I were to collect all of the die marriages and metals, it would total well over 100 tokens. That really does not interest me, especially when the tokens get pricey, which many Lincoln tokens are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7410917, member: 101855"]The piece you have is made of German silver, and it is moderately scarce. In German silver it is rated as an R-4, 201 to 500 pieces known. As you might have suspected, German silver contains no silver. It is an ally of copper, nickel and maybe some zinc or other white metals. I collect the Lincoln Civil War tokens only by the obverse varieties. There are 12, maybe 13, Lincoln Civil War token obverse dies. Here is my example of obverse die #127. This one is numbered 127/248a. It is made of copper, and it is by far the most common Lincoln variety that was made during the war. [ATTACH=full]1288188[/ATTACH] Your token is married to the #177 die, which is one of the George Washington statue varieties. There are four of those, and some of them are common. Your piece is flatly struck with a lot of detail missing, especially on the Washington side. German silver is hard and difficult to strike. These tokens are never sharp, even in high grade. That's why I have passed on them as a collector. My goal was to get all of the Lincoln obverse die varieties. If I were to collect all of the die marriages and metals, it would total well over 100 tokens. That really does not interest me, especially when the tokens get pricey, which many Lincoln tokens are.[/QUOTE]
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