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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7840175, member: 101855&quot;]This is fairly common CWT. The Fuld numbers are 173/273a. It was made by Scoville Manufacturing Company in Connecticut. It&#039;s rated as an R-2.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are five minor variations of the obverse. One scarcer variety has Washington with his head turned looking at you. It&#039;s kind of eerie looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry Higgins made a copy of this design. It&#039;s now one of his Indiana Primitive designs. Here it is. Finding an Indiana Primitive CWT in Mint State is unusual. I located it when I was a dealer and had the money to set it aside. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348527[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Henry Higgins made the obverse of this piece by taking an existing token and using it to make an impression in soft steel. Some of the detail was lost, but he a copy of a more complicated design. Higgins made the die for the reverse on the piece above from scratch. Designs like this make his &quot;primitive tokens&quot; popular. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of the token Higgins used to make the piece shown above. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348528[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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