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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 26665020, member: 114169&quot;]One of the <b>MANY</b> rabbit holes I have explored . . . . . </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several invaluable vintage catalog books by L. Benjamin Fauver that really help with the identification and attribution of some of the 1890&#039;s Game Counter pieces.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Exonumia Symbolism &amp; Classification</b> is his largest book which covers the Kettle struck pieces, Hard Times and Civil War tokens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He also published <b>American Counters I, II, III, IV, and V</b> which cover the Quarter-Eagle to Double-Eagle sized gaming counters struck for the American consumer market.&nbsp; A similar CT thread was showing off a few of these style counters.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/isn%E2%80%99t-she-a-beauty.420926/#post-26653091" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/isn%E2%80%99t-she-a-beauty.420926/#post-26653091">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/isn’t-she-a-beauty.420926/#post-26653091</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Your Spiel Marke token would be cataloged in Fauver&#039;s <b>Nuremberg and Nuremberg Style Jetons</b>.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a copy of this book but would love to get my hands on one.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, many of these little spiel marke gaming tokens have been photographed and cataloged on TokenCatalog.com</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link that will take you to quite a few.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?SearchStringEveryWord=spiel+marke&amp;SubmitFilter=SearchAll&amp;action=DisplayRecords&amp;ta_country=U.S.A.&amp;td_state=&amp;td_city=&amp;SearchString=&amp;SearchStringAnyWord=&amp;HomePageSearch=&amp;view=All+Listings" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?SearchStringEveryWord=spiel+marke&amp;SubmitFilter=SearchAll&amp;action=DisplayRecords&amp;ta_country=U.S.A.&amp;td_state=&amp;td_city=&amp;SearchString=&amp;SearchStringAnyWord=&amp;HomePageSearch=&amp;view=All+Listings" rel="nofollow">https://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?SearchStringEveryWord=spiel+marke&amp;SubmitFilter=SearchAll&amp;action=DisplayRecords&amp;ta_country=U.S.A.&amp;td_state=&amp;td_city=&amp;SearchString=&amp;SearchStringAnyWord=&amp;HomePageSearch=&amp;view=All+Listings</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a but a small selection of those I have been fortunate to have picked up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701300[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701301[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701302[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701303[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701304[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701305[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1701306[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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