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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1722118, member: 29751&quot;]This token arrived today.&nbsp; I purchased it in the June 2, 2013 Steve Hayden online auction.&nbsp; I paid a very strong price for it, but it&#039;s not a token that comes up in this condition very often.&nbsp; The NGC population includes only 12 examples, among those one in MS66BN, and three in MS65RB.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know where the other two 65RB examples are, but I have a hard time believing they would challenge the eye appeal of this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The token is rated R-5 by Fuld, with 76-200 examples estimated extant.&nbsp; I have seen about a dozen in the VF-XF range on eBay over the past 2.5 years.&nbsp; The MS66BN example is in strong hands, and likely there for a long while.&nbsp; Given that I had searched for an eye appealing example of this token for well over 2 years, I bid strong to make this one mine.&nbsp; I usually don&#039;t care too much about pedigrees, but this token comes from the former Stephen Tanenbaum personal collection; who, for those of you CWT collectors out there, the guy was a legend.&nbsp; A very nice write up on the history of the token was written in December 2012 by Aaron Packard on the NovaNumismatics site, and I have included that in my description of the token in <a href="https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/coinview.aspx?sc=235734" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/coinview.aspx?sc=235734" rel="nofollow">my horses set which you can read here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>My images follow below...&nbsp;&nbsp; :w8v4:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-3/1863_Aschermann_Tobacco_NGC_MS65RB_composite_zps33612a09.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-3/1863_Aschermann_Tobacco_NGC_MS65RB_obv_zpsd10cae55.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-3/1863_Aschermann_Tobacco_NGC_MS65RB_rev_zpsf2b7efcb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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