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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 2166033, member: 28550&quot;]I don&#039;t know much about this series, but I recently picked up a penny sized bronze or copper coin that was apparently used in Latin America in the mid 19th-century. </p><p><br /></p><p>On one side, the token simply says &quot;Mitad&quot; (Half... half a cent perhaps?). On the other, it says &quot;J. J. De L&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea who the merchant/issuer was, but I found that many of these Mitad tokens were struck by a button company in Waterbury, Connecticut named Scoville Manufacturing. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s the same as this one? </p><p><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/colombia-mitad-token-santader-1800s-128803554" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/colombia-mitad-token-santader-1800s-128803554" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/colombia-mitad-token-santader-1800s-128803554</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A group of 15 Mitad tokens sold through Heritage (including a lower grade example of this piece) for $1057.50:</p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/colombia/colombia-token-mitad-collection-total-15-tokens-/a/3020-26494.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/colombia/colombia-token-mitad-collection-total-15-tokens-/a/3020-26494.s" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/itm/colombia/colombia-token-mitad-collection-total-15-tokens-/a/3020-26494.s</a></p><p><br /></p><p>How would you grade this one? And what would you guesstimate it&#039;s value at? Also, any idea who or what &quot;J.J. De L&quot; might be?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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