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<p>[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8657153, member: 116145"]I am nothing if not inconsistent! So I finally picked up a 1790s Kentucky "cent" token on eBay to go with my Colonial Coppers - negotiated a reasonable best offer - mine is the plain edge variety. Then I also bought an aluminum and bronze 1897 Bickford "so called" dollar. For more info from our friends at PCGS: "Ron Guth: This coin is really a reference to the United States, not just to a particular state, but because the star at the top of the pyramid bears the abbreviation "K", this coin has become known as the Kentucky Token (sometimes called a "Cent"). All of the different varieties of the Kentucky token were struck in England and they are collected as 1) part of the series of American Colonial coins and 2) as part of the series of Merchant (and other) tokens catalogued by Dalton & Hamer -- otherwise known as Conder Tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: "UNANIMITY IS THE STRENGTH OF SOCIETY" surrounds a hand holding a scroll that reads, "OUR CAUSE IS JUST"</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: "E PLURIBUS UNUM" above a fifteen star pyramid in rays of glory. Each of the stars bears the initial of one of the fifteen United States existing at the time. The top star bears the letter "K" (for Kentucky - the fifteenth State), hence the name of the token."</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the Bickford "so called" Dollar origins - "While visiting in Europe, Dana Bickford of New York City experienced the usual difficulty of travelers in getting money of one country exchanged for that of another. Upon his return, he submitted several designs for a proposed international coinage to Dr. Henry R. Linderman, then Mint Director, who approved the idea because of the saving an international coinage would afford the U.S. Government, as well as the convenience it would provide travelers abroad. Recoinage and waste on coin coming into this country amounted to approximately one-half million dollars a year at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using one of Bickford's designs, Dr. Linderman in 1874 had a pattern eagle struck in gold, copper, nickel and aluminum. This pattern is not bi-metallic, but like the later private issues, it bears on reverse coin equivalents of several countries. Congress failed to take action to approve the idea, and the project was dropped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bickford, in 1897, issued eight "dollars" or patterns for an international coinage, reverse inscription on each giving exchange value of the dollar in several world currencies, all 28mm."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1519259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519260[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519262[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519263[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8657153, member: 116145"]I am nothing if not inconsistent! So I finally picked up a 1790s Kentucky "cent" token on eBay to go with my Colonial Coppers - negotiated a reasonable best offer - mine is the plain edge variety. Then I also bought an aluminum and bronze 1897 Bickford "so called" dollar. For more info from our friends at PCGS: "Ron Guth: This coin is really a reference to the United States, not just to a particular state, but because the star at the top of the pyramid bears the abbreviation "K", this coin has become known as the Kentucky Token (sometimes called a "Cent"). All of the different varieties of the Kentucky token were struck in England and they are collected as 1) part of the series of American Colonial coins and 2) as part of the series of Merchant (and other) tokens catalogued by Dalton & Hamer -- otherwise known as Conder Tokens. Obverse: "UNANIMITY IS THE STRENGTH OF SOCIETY" surrounds a hand holding a scroll that reads, "OUR CAUSE IS JUST" Reverse: "E PLURIBUS UNUM" above a fifteen star pyramid in rays of glory. Each of the stars bears the initial of one of the fifteen United States existing at the time. The top star bears the letter "K" (for Kentucky - the fifteenth State), hence the name of the token." As to the Bickford "so called" Dollar origins - "While visiting in Europe, Dana Bickford of New York City experienced the usual difficulty of travelers in getting money of one country exchanged for that of another. Upon his return, he submitted several designs for a proposed international coinage to Dr. Henry R. Linderman, then Mint Director, who approved the idea because of the saving an international coinage would afford the U.S. Government, as well as the convenience it would provide travelers abroad. Recoinage and waste on coin coming into this country amounted to approximately one-half million dollars a year at that time. Using one of Bickford's designs, Dr. Linderman in 1874 had a pattern eagle struck in gold, copper, nickel and aluminum. This pattern is not bi-metallic, but like the later private issues, it bears on reverse coin equivalents of several countries. Congress failed to take action to approve the idea, and the project was dropped. Bickford, in 1897, issued eight "dollars" or patterns for an international coinage, reverse inscription on each giving exchange value of the dollar in several world currencies, all 28mm." [ATTACH=full]1519259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519260[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519262[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1519263[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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