Redline68

1615 Wildman Thaler

My first thought is toning. I had some Unc Morgans in a ~100 year old wood cabinet for 6-9 months and the rapid toning that took place was remarkable. It made me realize that I didn't know enough about different woods and their potential impact to coins. Maybe it was old residue from something in the old wood and wouldn't be an issue for new cabinets. I don't know.

That's a nice site that I will check out more when I have time. I'm afraid I have no similar site to suggest. Most of my info comes from books I've acquired over the years and relationships I've built with dealers and fellow collectors. Steve Hayden is running an auction right now with some nice New York store cards. https://www.civilwartokens.com/

Hello Bob, I just looked at your set and the counter changed to 59. I did have to search for it though. Since it hasn't been updated in awhile it might be pretty far down the list. That may be why you're not picking up a few views from time to time.

Yes, it's still at 59. The counter seems to not be working correctly.

I saw no change in my set. I also suspect it knows the IP address, https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=32322

This is my lowest graded slabbed coin. FR02. Head of '95.

Per Will Nipper's book "In Yankee Doodle's Pocket", some Conder tokens did circulate in America but most emerged too late to circulate in large quantities.

Just a quick compare to an authentic coin raises suspicions for me: where the point of the bust meets the Q, the fonts - look at the N and 1. I'm not an expert so seek other opinions. To me it looks suspect.

My opinion is: Fake

Interesting and helpful overlay. On closer inspection there is die clash evidence. Moreso on the front, but there appears to a little on the back as well near the memorial roof and between the pillars. Coin found in pocket change approx 1980.

Agree with above responses. Cud example:

Ernest, your token is 230/352B. Die 230 can be identified by the stripes (as opposed to stars) in the shield. Die 352B can be identified by the fuse hole (dot on worn dies) on the front cannon (absent on die 352 and die 352A). If the token is white metal, the attribution would be F-230/352Be.

It's happened to me a couple times. USPS was no help. They closed the cases as "delivered" because apparently they had been scanned in front of my mailbox. However in both cases the packages were actually put into other mailboxes. One was a few houses down, the other around the corner on the next street. I did received the coins late, but only out of the kindness of my neighbors who received them and then delivered them to me. Perhaps a bit of hope showing USPS looking: two weeks ago I received an Amazon package for a neighbor in my mailbox along with my mail. I walked the package to the correct address and hand delivered it. The next day the USPS mail lady rang my door and asked if I had received a package by mistake. I explained what happened. So they did make an attempt to find it. I don't know if it was because it was Amazon, it was scanned in front of my house, or what. I hope they find your package or it finds it's way to you.

My NGC phone app scanned it as PF 68 RD.

I've noticed the prohibition tokens but don't specifically look for them and can't recall where I've seen them. There were many New York civil war store cards produced and, other than the sources you mentioned, they often can be found a handful at a time on online sites (example: NE Numismatics) or occasionally online auctions other than ebay: https://www.civilwartokens.com/Event/Details/3295019/Auction-49/C176775-C176787/Civil_War_Store_Cards-New_York I don't specifically collect civil war store cards but I do have a couple dozen New York tokens that I've picked up from time to time. There are also a few patriotic civil war tokens that mention New York and many patriotics that were created by Emil Sigel in New York City who himself and his brother Franz (The Hero of Pea Ridge) have an interesting history.