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I know its not Tuesday yet but Im very excited and wanted to share this story. I bought a few of these tokens off a seller on Ebay about a year ago. I was very suprised because they were from an old store my papaw owned. I got a couple 25 cent and a couple 50cent. I was telling the seller how cool it was to get them and the story about my papaw owning that store. They remembered that and sent me a message a year later telling me they found some more. They were wonderful people to talk to. Very nice. Alot of people wouldnt care less about something like that. My mom loaned me the money to buy them till my pay goes in the bank. She was very excited to see them also. This lot consist of four 25c, four 50c, and two $1 tokens. Im very excited to add a couple $1 tokens in with the others. Not sure what all is in a full set of them but it would be really cool to get a whole set eventually. Some have a few flaws but the history tying my family to them makes them special to me. Grahn was a very small community. Had a school, a post office, a brickyard, and a small store. This one on the token. My mother was raised in this small community. It had a very small population. It still does today. This store closed many years ago. Around 1980. Another took its place in the late 80s but closed in the mid 90s due to lack of business. The brickyard is still in operation but hanging on by a thread. My uncle was working there but took a different job because they can only fire it up a day or two a week. The school also closed back in the mid 90s and all the kids started going to a school in the next town over due to the small number of students. Here is one Ive shared before but I will post it to show everyone which ones Im talking about. I will share the new ones when they come in. The other token I shared a in a post a few days ago came from the same seller. It was a brickyard token from the next town over where my other papaw worked. It was very cool to see the same seller have tokens that have businesses with ties to both sides of my family.

Very nice JP. Your getting a nice collection going.

Can anyone tell me what causes the anomallys such as on this quarter? Ive seen them on other coins also. I know its nothing valuable and not worth grading and everything. Im just trying to figure out the cause of it. It dosent affect the device at all but it goes right up to it. I thought MD at first but when I looked under a loupe its raised quite a bit. Also the rest of the quarter is in really good shape. I cant see any signs of a worn die on rest of coin. Its sort of teardropped shaped also. The whole area from the top of his hat to his arm is slightly raised but higher in certain spots than others. By his nose, mouth, and chin is the highest spot. It sort of resembles a die chip. I figured if the die had a tiny chip in it then Washingtons face would be distorted due to metal flowing to fill the chip. Its not distorted at all. Ive seen simular spots like this on other coins and just got curious what causes it. Thank you to all who takes the time to look over this. Im very grateful to everyones responses. Im still in a learning process trying to learn the science of coin striking. And this is an example I can really learn from. Sorry my photos are not the greatest. All I got is junk to take pictures with for now. I tried to capture a couple different angles of it due to the poor lighting I have here.

Yep. They had heavy plancets and light ones and some already within tolerance. If one was to light they would send it to be melted back down. If it was to heavy they would file the edges a little until it was within tolerance. They had women adjusters that all had a set of scales and they weighed every single planchet to make sure they were within tolerance. They used women back in the day because women done a better job at it and was faster. They had one woman boss who was over the other ladies. They kept the men away from them. The women had their own eating quarters also. They women were eventually replaced by scales that sorted them out but I think I read where the heavies still had to be manually filed.

Heartbreaking to see someone scratch up a coin to see if its real. Brought back memories from a few years ago i seen a man scratching a coin with his pocket knife to see if it was silver. Cant remember what kind it was. Was back many years before I was a collector. Didnt bother me at the time but now I collect it would drive me crazy. It may have been an old cull coin. I cant say for sure.

I just got done reading about the adjusters today. The coin I posted above dosent have anything to do with them. Be cool if someone had a coin to post with file marks from adjusters. Would let newbies like me see the differance between adjustment marks, drawbench marks, and damage.

This would be a good thread to post the Morgan I have with the draw bench marks on it. So new collectors can see the difference between drawbench marks and damage. Ive posted this one before in another thread. I bought this coin at the time just because of the marks. Then had it certified. Its an 1878 S graded MS65.

Those are very cool tokens Buffalo. You have an amazing collection. You never cease to amaze me with the impressive coins and tokens you post. Well done my friend.

Heres the man.

If it is real it looks like its been cleaned pretty hard.

She talked about having to eat possums and things when she was younger. She used to tell us all sorts of stories. She would give us a dollar everytime we went to see her. We loved going to visit her. I remember when I was 12 years old I used to mow her yard $10. It wasnt very big. I thought I was big stuff where I was working and earning my own money. Where you say minimum wage wasnt enforced very well. I can see that out of this little town. One of the most crooked little towns I ever seen. Wouldnt suprise me at all if that place wasnt paying many of the workers under the table. The chief of police sells drugs. He resigned a few days ago. Maybe the new chief will be better.

Thank you. I try to research some things but I dont have a whole lot of luck. I like to talk to you all also. Try to strike up a conversation and do some learning also. Dont see very many people around the house to talk to.

Thanks for the info @gmarguli. I know not to believe her now. All these years I believed that lie she told us kids.

Id say she was telling us a big one it looks like. I believed that all those years. She was something else. Crazy old bird. I never did research it so I believed her lie. One of those old timer hard luck stories. When did women start making the same wages? Did they have to get paid a minimum wage?

She was probably feeding us full of it. Talking about the rough old days. It may have been the 40s. My papaw was in WW2 and she was older than him. She was an old lady back when I was a kid. That was the mid 80s. She died in 1992. Heres a picture of her in 1990. I may have got the time period confused. She was telling me those old hard time stories. Thats just what she told us. Dont know if she was pulling our leg or not. She may have been. I remember her talking about sewing clothes for the military. But that particular factory done that all the way up till it closed about 15 years ago. So not sure if it was war time or not.

It was a day. Im sorry. Got mixed up a little. Thats what she told us when we were kids. Made 25 cents a day at the sewing factory in Olive Hill Ky. I meant to put day instead of week. Got my days and weeks mixed up. Ill go back and edit it. She may have been full of it. She was a talker.

Very true. Some people worked all day for a nickle or less. I had a great aunt when I was younger told me she made 25 cents a day in the 1950s working at a sewing factory.

Thats very neat info. Still super cheap compared to todays. Those guys probably never dreamed they would be up around $30,000 or more.

I been looking through some old issues of The Numismatic Scrapbook Magizene. Its just amazing to look at the prices in 1940 compared to today. Figured Id share this page with whoever wants to see it and finds it amazing as I do. The Gobrecht dollar espically caught my attention. Get a proof for $35.50. Im not very good at math at all but how much would that be comparing it to todays money? I never was good at comparing prices of different time periods. Very cool stuff though.

Sorry if these questions are of no interest to everyone. If they are ill not post anymore of them. Just let me know. Dont wanna bore everyone. Im just really facinated with the subject when gets into machinery. I know alot of basic things but, Im trying to imagine how they had to do things in those days without the technology we have today.

Thats what I figured. Id say to took alot of trial and error. Probably took quite a few strikes at first to get the desired outcome. When it was time to start striking coins they would know close to where to set it when they changed denominations. Thats probably why the die setter watched a few strikes after he set the dies. So he could make the adjustments. These are just my guesses. They sure struck alot of beautiful coins. They were very good to figure tonage and things like that with the lack of technology. They didnt have the computers and measuring instruments we had. Thats why I was wondering how they measured it as close as they did. I really enjoy things like that. I been trying to get a deeper understanding. Thank you all for the information.

Thank you. Sounds like they could get fairly close but not exactly accurate when measuring force of the machine in those times.

That my friend is why you got one of the nicest sets in the world. One of the nicest sets Ive ever laid eyes on. Some absolute gems. I think most people on here will agree with me.

Love it my friend. Thought you was gonna play Big Girls Dont Cry when I first saw it. I like old Frankie Valli.

I love mechanic work and how machines and engines work. And anything else machine related. I never was any good at all the technical figurings.