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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 1790389, member: 22729"]Great tokens as always Cheetah. The eagle on the Clinton Lunch pieces remind me of Richard Trested emissions but, of course, are too late to be his work. These look as if two different die cutters were involved. The eagle is well done while the figure of the warrior (?) is quite crude. If I remember correctly, the weakness in the center of some of these tokens is due to die weakness rather than wear and so the high grades assigned. The Morsonic Amulets always interested me. I remember researching them a number of years ago, but really found nothing of importance. Do you know why Rulau assigned them to New York by the way? The City of Petersburg token really has the look of a Civil War era piece but, apparently, dates earlier than that. I owned a beautiful Beck's Baths token at one time. It was dark but high grade and slabbed by NGC as yours is. I always thought the color was from environmental problems of some nature, but NGC disagreed. Though mild by today's standards, these were considered quite risqué for the time. Always liked Samuel Hart's tokens because of the playing cards...very unusual. As always, I love to see your tokens Cheetah. BTW, did you get to the Philly show? I skipped it this year but will be at Baltimore in November. Thanks for posting your new pickups. Bruce[/QUOTE]