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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 1513138, member: 23874&quot;]<b>The Samuel Hart Playing Card Company &amp; Its Tokens</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Samuel Hart was a renowned playing card maker during the 19th century. Many of the features that we take for granted today were revolutionized by him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to the Civil War, Hart emitted two major varieties of Merchant Cards, all struck in a variety of metals and silvering.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first two pictured below come from his first set of emissions between 1854-57.</p><p><br /></p><p>Specimen #1 was struck in copper.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://gallery.novanumismatics.com/Pa-197A-Saml-Hart-CombinedWh.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Specimen #2 was struck in white metal.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://gallery.novanumismatics.com/PA-197B-SamlHart-Combined-SB-01-12-6547-13.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Specimen #3, pictured below, was struck during the Civil War. Cataloged as NY630AGa-1h, the specimen is currently unlisted in Fuld&#039;s Civil War Token Storecard reference. </p><p><br /></p><p>Struck on hard rubber, it is the only Samuel Hart CWT specimen that I have personally seen, and only the second one that I&#039;m aware of that exists. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is NGC slabbed, graded at AU-55. The opaque linear lines seen across the specimen&#039;s fields are scratches on the NGC slab, rather than the specimen itself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hailing from the Alan Bleviss Collection, I acquired and received it last week.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://gallery.novanumismatics.com/NY630AGa-1h-SamlHart-Combined.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For more information about Samuel Hart and his playing card tokens, you can go here: <a href="http://www.novanumismatics.com/articles/numismatics41.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.novanumismatics.com/articles/numismatics41.php" rel="nofollow">The Samuel Hart Playing Cards Company &amp; Its Tokens</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheetah[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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