Just Bob

The OP has not visited this site in over a year, and the new poster, Opiniaster, is likely a spammer or spambot.

A.D. Spencer tokens were coined in denominations of 5, 10, 25, and 50 cents. Despite the appearance of my pictures, the tokens are all brass. Side note: Charleston, MS is the home of Morgan Freeman.

Just an observation: I wonder, if this coin had been raw, and had been posted by a newbie touting his new acquisition that Grandpa left him in his will, how many of us would have immediately told them that the coin had been cleaned. The coin does have hairlines, and it does have gunk in the protected areas, and it does look like many coins that have been posted on this forum that were pronounced "cleaned." But, being that it is already in one of our host's slabs, do we automatically give it the benefit of the doubt? Just food for thought.

Dude, you need help.

Colin Gulberg is the author of "Chopmarked Coins - a History" (iAssure Group JEAN Publications 2014) Copy/paste from a Numismatic News article dated 5/26/2016: Collectors should be aware there are counterfeit chopmarked Trade dollars, said Gullberg. “Now huge numbers of fakes are coming out of China and faked chops are just another way to fool buyers into thinking the coin is genuine,” he said. “After all, a chopped Trade dollar usually sells at a discount then no one would deliberately try to reduce the selling price, right?”

Fake

Welcome to the forum. Although it may not seem possible that a silver coin that is 50 or 80 years old is only worth the price of the precious metal that it contains, it is true. Supply and demand, along with condition, rarity, and collector interest are major factors in determining value. Although all of these coins are nice to have in your collection, none are rare or in great demand. If the offers you have gotten are in line with the amounts given by the previous posters, you have not been given the run-around, in my opinion. If they are considerably less, and you still want to sell your coins, you might consider listing them on the Marketplace forum on this site. I'm sure several people would be interested in them at $7-8 a piece.

To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy: I don't care who you are, that's just impressive right there.

Thank you for confirming what I and a few others have been saying for years. I just wish that we could convince others on this website who insist on pointing out every wrong detail that they can find on the numerous fakes that we see here. They apparently don't believe (and some have stated it outright) that the counterfeiters read these forums. What they don't seem to understand is that I believe it isn't just some Chinese guy with a basement coin press who is watching the boards; it is the American sellers who are constantly trying to have the products improved so they can fool even the experts. Those fake coppers that Charmy posted which fooled the graders and finalizers and made it into PCGS and NGC slabs should have every one of us worried. Not more than 45 minutes ago, I looked up the cert number on a PCGS MS64 Morgan that my grandson was looking at to buy. It was a fake, in a fake PCGS Gold Shield slab, and a very convincing one.

I disagree. I think this is a great group of coins. Thanks for posting them.

This token has nothing to do with slavery as an institution. It is given to a server in a restaurant instead of cash due to the belief of some people that working for tips is a form of slavery.

Welcome to the forum. What errors did the serious coin collector say that you had on your coins?

The fact that the designer's initials are very faint leads me to believe it is over polishing.

In 1917, Lucius O. Crosby and Lamont Rowlands bought the property of R.J Williams, which consisted of a sawmill and mercantile. The store became the C&R Mercantile, and in 1924, the name was changed to The C&R Stores. The main location was in Picayune, Mississippi, and at various times, there were branch locations in 11 different towns, including Blodgett, two tokens of which are shown below. Tokens for this branch were issued in denominations of 10 cents, 25 cents, and one dollar, with two different varieties known for the dollar denomination. All types are listed as R9 (2 to 3 known) in the MS token book.

They aren't on my phone, but they are on my laptop. (By the way, you have a star, and your title is "Proficient.") Not crazy about the graphics, but the titles are fine. I like them much better than the "titles" that were on here years ago. Some of those were just plain silly.

May I intrude here to ask a question? The link above provided by the OP shows only one of these coins graded by NGC, and it graded PF69. The coin pictured is graded Gem Proof UC. Is this the same coin? Is "Gem Proof" counted in the census as a 69?

After a very quick search, the oldest coin I found was a 1723 Woods Hibernia 1/2 P in MS 64RD. There are three shown in that grade. I may have missed an earlier one, but I don't think so. Edited to add: I would not be at all surprised if one of the three coins graded MS64 RD at NGC turned out to be the same one graded at PCGS. Crossovers seem to be the norm these days.

I wonder if the rest of the coins in the bag are also counterfeit.

That appears to be die erosion doubling, not a doubled die

Well done!