Mr_Spud

Nice, I have one just like that. I bought it partially filled like you did. But here’s the latest album I’m currently working on. I just put it together 2 weeks ago. It’s a date set of Morgan dollars. I sorted out my raw Morgan’s and was able to complete more than 1/2 of the date set with what I already had.

New purchase 🌞

Here’s a few of mine

Here’s a couple more pages from the book

And here’s the first few pages of the book that was for people who were really into these

And here is the pamphlet that came with the batteries

Besides coins, I also collect old medicine bottles, quack medicine devices and old medical and scientific instruments and books about these things. Boyd’s Batteries, a quack medical device from the late 1800s, are often considered to be numismatic tokens similar to So-called dollars so they have double appeal to me.

They were galvanic batteries made by having disks of different metals that created a small electric current when exposed to sweat when worn as a necklace and were touted to be able to cure all kinds of diseases.

Below are pictures of my collection of Boyd’s Batteries and related stuff. And here are some links to websites with even more info on them https://www.wordcraft.net/magneticbattery.html halfway down the page on the next one https://archive.org/stream/tamsjournal27n6toke/tamsjournal27n6toke_djvu.txt

The first 2 are the a little smaller than the 3rd and 4th (note- these 2 are the same size, I just shrunk the first one to get some of the chain in the picture). The 5th one is a competitor made shortly thereafter in Canada.