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This is a duplicate for my collection (I have another in NGC MS65RB), but this is a particularly nice early die state example of the Fuld 174/272a die pairing.

The Partridge & Richardson token is pretty cool. The beehive symbol has been used by the Freemasons. Do you know if either of these gentlemen were Freemasons?

I don't think it has anything to do with the Freemasons. A "Bee-hive" was a type of general clothing / merchandise store in the 19th century. The pictorial is a reference to that as far as I know (likely no subliminal symbolism). Below is a postcard from c. 1880 for the store. On an aside, the beehive symbolism of "industry and cooperation" existed long before the Freemasons latched onto it for their fraternity.

I picked up these two in the Marshall sale, part 1.

A couple newps...

I put these in the CWT thread also -- but that thread seems to be a ghost town. Here are a couple new coppers from the 9/6/2014 Long Beach Heritage Auction.

Cheers,

-Brandon

I made it through the nearly 1,000 lots in the Baldwin's auction last night also...coupled with the Griffiths remainder (Wales) in the DNW sale, there are three rather large auctions all within 3 days.

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HT, nice DH-1037.

I have only purchased one PCGS graded Conder so far -- I think they're still in a fairly steep learning curve. It also annoys me that they don't put any information about the edge lettering on the holder. I certainly don't trust that they always get the DH number right, so at least knowing some of the edge text (like NGC does) would be nice.

I tried out some new photography methods to image the cool edge lettering on this one...

Can't get enough of St. George and the Dragon

A couple new tokens. The Midd-343 is not strictly speaking a token of the era (struck by Taylor ca. 1870), but it makes it into D&H. This particular example is struck in copper, and has a long provenance dating back to the Lincoln Collection (ca. 1890s).

The Angus-40 (dated 1796, misspelled "HALL" as "ALL") is a nice bronzed piece from the RC Bell collection. I have the DH-42 (dated 1797) in my collection also, but this one was hard to pass up.

Cheers,

-Brandon

I love the patina and strike on that penny wdrob! (thumbs u

Sold six certified world coins to wdrob. Two thumbs up all the way -- very easy to work with, great communication, and very fast payment. No problems, and I'd recommend dealing with wdrob to anyone on the boards.

(thumbs u

Forgive me for posting a non-USA coin here, but I thought many of you may like to see a rather unusual denomination.

As you know the USA at times issued coins in denominations of 1, 2, 3, and 5 cents. But, apparently somewhat foreign to our thinking, a 4 cent coin never circulated. This 4 centavos coin from Portugal is a 2 year type coin (1917 and 1919 only), and the denomination of 4 centavos is quite curious for a decimal system. The UK had 4 pence (or groat), but that was not a decimal system -- the UK predecimal system was a base-12 or base-60 system (depending on how you look at it).

The coin pictured below was minted in more than 10 million pieces, but full gem BU examples are hard to hunt down (I'm not saying they are scarce at all, but they don't come up for sale all too often). PCGS has graded 2 in MS65 (this is one of them) and NGC has graded only one in MS65. There are none graded higher by either TPG. A fairly common "problem" on this issue is a weakly struck lower portion/half of the 1919 date. This example has a nicely struck up date -- and some cool die cracks around the periphery on the side with the left facing woman.

The satiny smooth lustrous surfaces are entrancing on this coin in hand. I hope I have captured them in the images.

Cheers,

-Brandon

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Joe and the hurricane those are some super pickups.

 

Mercury dime guy, that's a heck of a way to announce your entry to the boards! Welcome to your new home.

"New home" -- lurking for 10 years and first post.

I do not collect rossie's but I have a few. I collect as many U S coins as I can afford to.

Found your stash of money

 

Wife says the Dishwasher is broke. I told her it's not the first time she was out of money.

I picked up a nice set of the 1964 ANA Convention Medals in their original plexiglas individually numbered holder. The bronze badge version of this medal is quite available with a run of 3,860 -- but this two medal set of bronze and silver without the loop are quite difficult to find with a mintage of only 300 sets. They are each 39mm in diameter.

This medal just arrived...

 

 

 

-Brandon

 

Winner!

 

I like the mailman emoticon too...I'm gonna have to steal that one.

 

jom

Steal away! I wanted a mail-man version of one I found online, so I edited it for my needs. The original looked like this:

Lovely Midd-24 pieces Yarm! I love the look of bronzed pieces. The uniform chocolate brown look of them is hard to beat!

Here's an example of one of my Midd-342 bronzed halfpenny tokens below. One other interesting thing about bronzed pieces is that they usually have a lovely iridescence when tilted into the light. This token was raw when I photographed it below, but now resides in an NGC MS65BN holder. The 2nd image below is the token tilted into the light, with great amounts of blue iridescence!

As described by R.W. McLachlan in the American Journal of Numismatics, January 1880 (Volume XIV, Issue 3, page 76)

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Short branch variety

This medal just arrived...

-Brandon

I suppose this can go in this thread also...

 

Is that the same Lovett of confederate cent fame?

Yes, Robert Jr. They had quite a family of talented engravers, but Robert Jr. seems to get all the fame for the confederate cent.

I suppose this can go in this thread also...

A couple newer medals that I finally got around to photographing.

My little piece of the EPN legacy....

A 6-penny token from London circa 1810.

I finally got around to photographing this token. This is from yarm's spring sale here on the NGC boards.

-Brandon

A new horse coin. VERY flashy coin in hand.