Conder101

Fields apper hazed, there is something going on in the field to the right and below the arm, I'd like to look at it in hand through a loupe but it kind of looks like some of the lines in the stars have been strengthened. The area below liberty's chin is odd, reminds me of attempts to do artificial frosting.

I said that on another forum, the mint found a way to keep low mintage high demand items on sale for a longer period of time........make the site crash more. There are limits to what the mint is allowed to charge, or at least their used to be.

Leave it in the ATS holder and either send it in as a crossover, or just for straight grading (in the GSA holder) and NGC will handle the cracking out. That way you don't risk damaging the GSA holder.

It also could have succeeded if they had stopped making dollar notes.

I think your best course of action would be an XRF gun test. If its plated and the test doesn't penetrate the plating the nickel content will read way too high. If it is coppernickel you should get a reading of 75% copper 25% nickel. If it is plated brass and it DOES penetrate the plating then the ratio of copper and nickel will be important and whether or not there is zinc present and if so how much.

One, it is not a coin, two, while it may be made in a mint in the US it's a private mint not a US Mint.

And being a die clash there are probably "spitting eagles" for every year of the eagle reverse design.

The OP said he sent the coin in, now Alex is sitting back eating the popcorn waiting for further developments.

If you can supply them at a reasonable price there is usually a market for tokens for clubs/organizations etc.

Also if it was missing a clad layer it would not weigh near the maximum mint tolerance weight, especially since the color is on BOTH sides which would indicate both clad layers were missing. Both layer would weigh close to 3.5 grams and it would be very thin and weakly struck.

Your Conder token is a Middlesex 370, part of the Masonic series. This token comes with seven different edge varieties two of which are very rare, two are scarce, and the other three are common.

Don't bother with the book you first listed by James Conder, that is a reprint of the book he published in 1795. Kind of neat as an historical reference but completely unusable. There are a couple other references from back in the 1790's but they are pretty much unusable as well. For the most part no images, just description and in cases where there was more than one variety of a particular token it would be described and then for the other varieties the author knew of they would just be listed as "another, differently arranged" The standard reference for the series is "The Provincial Token Coinage of the Eighteenth Century" by Dalton and Hammer. This was originally published in a serial format in 1910-1918. In 1967 the book was republished by Sanford Durst publications. It was just the original serial published in book format.. It was reprinted again by Quarterman publications in 1977, then by Allan Davisson in 1986?, 1990 and 2004. He had a set of the original serial disbound and used it to make the plates for the new reprint. In the 86, 90 and 2000 editions he also included new discoveries reported since the original serial came out. (These tended to run $150 to $200 when they were published.) The latest edition was published in 2015 by William McKivor. Originally promoted as an all new version of D&H in the end it wound up still being just another reprint of the original serial with all the new information from the Davisson reprints and new discoveries since 2004. This was originally $125 and there was a "deluxe" edition that was $225. Be careful buying this book online, there are several people selling "print on demand" copies that do NOT contain the complete work. For example this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/283323047952?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=283323047952&targetid=1264870805264&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9014942&poi=&campaignid=10455986539&mkgroupid=123050588060&rlsatarget=pla-1264870805264&abcId=2146002&merchantid=133929137&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ouKBhC5ARIsAHXNMI948EbOmsHkycHGnNdIPFI1C2QfLGdGhyLRwXZG2X8-Z5AIWvagrMAaAh_fEALw_wcB The title is right, but it is only 90 pages, the full book is 567 pages. There is a copy of the McKivor reprint on ebay right now for $109, which is probably about a cheap as you're going to find this book. (McKivor is dead now and I have no idea when the book will ever be reprinted again.) https://www.ebay.com/itm/273768155282 There is a free version that can be downloaded in a PDF format at http://provincialtokencoinage.weebly.com/ but it says in needs the latest version of Adobe Flash to run so it may not work anymore. This is a big file, 240 MB There may also be a digital version available for $25 at http://www.condertokenbook.com/ You go there send him an email and make arrangements for purchase. He will provide a website where the book can be downloaded. I have a copy of it in the tablet I carry with me to shows. It has been six years since I got it though so it may no longer be available, but the website is still active.

No part of a privately made set of counterstamped cents commemorating each of the Apollo missions. This one was for Apollo 13.

That doesn't look like a DDR, and definitely not the "big" one. Looks more like severe machine doubling. (I'm speaking about the last image posted.)

It's a real coin, did you note the BVI in the description? British Virgin Islands, member of the British Commonwealth, which is why the queens portrait is on it. This is just another country jumping on the bandwagon to try and get money out of collectors. The 100 aniversary coins for the Morgan and Peace dollar have been getting press, so they make something commemorating them too to try and syphon off some US coin collector cash.

Now you have the problem of running into the "estate hoard" scam. Another very popular scam on ebay. The scams have been run so much that no one with any experience believes them, even if they are true, because you can't prove they are true.

The Grant medal is a US Mint First Lady bronze medal, but the plating was applied after it left the US Mint.

Contemporary counterfeit, not an evasion piece. Might be a Coin Z family counterfeit but I'm not sure.

Could be an abraided die, could be damage, I don't think it is a cud.

Mintmarks on the Pratt Indian gold coins are not incuse, they are raised. In fact they are the highest point on the coins.

In the case of these things, I'm not sure the meaning is really that different.

I've seen other similar tokens on the various forums before identified as Pachinko tokens. Pachinko machines are a Japanese gambling machine that work kind of like a vertical pinball machine that uses ball bearings For a token operated machine you would buy the tokens from the arcade proprietor and put them in the machine. Each token would be worth a given number of balls. You then play the game and there is the possibility of winning more balls. When you decide you are done you empty out the balls and and are paid off for the number of balls you turn in. If you turn in more balls than the tokens purchased you win. Here a youtube video that shows the operation of a Star wars Pachinko machine with and explanation of how the gambling system works. Pachinko parlors are apparently very popular in Japan, I would assume that most parlors have their own tokens but size seems to be pretty much standard and tokens from one parlor would work at others. Similar to video arcade tokens here in the US.

If I thought it had a reasonable chance, I would recommend a closer examination. This one doesn't.. There are some people on the various forums that recommend newbies send any thing that they have in to the TPG's. Even when they obvious shouldn't be.

But a much lower survival rate.

The ANA tried this. Many of the major dealers who are a big draw for the show occupy the area right by the entrance and they had been leaving early. The ANA put in a rule that those dealers who left early would lose or have reduced their right to attend the next year. The first time they tried to apply it the major dealers told them that if they did that they simply wouldn't take tables the next year and would just attend and work the floor. the net result was the big dealers got a pass on the rule but it was applied only to the smaller dealers. And you still had the big guys leaving early and leaving empty tables near the entrance.