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Netherlands
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Last part WE-6 Really pleased with that one NS-21A1 Has some nice rainbow toning but that is from cleaning I'm afraid LC-15A1 PC-10-38   |
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United States
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Fantastic examples!  |
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United States
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A recent purchase from the Doug Robins collection - NGC MS65 BN with blazing lustre and a hint of natural red. Courteau 153, R7.   |
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United States
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Put this one on layaway. An extremely rare Blacksmith, BL-44. This example is only the 6th one I have been able to identify. There are 2 in the Bank of Canada collection and 3 others with recent sales (2 Heritage and 1 CNG) all graded F or F detail. I grade this one VG for the issue. If anyone has info on others, please let me know.   |
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Canada
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Quote:Put this one on layaway. An extremely rare Blacksmith, BL-44. This example is only the 6th one I have been able to identify. There are 2 in the Bank of Canada collection and 3 others with recent sales (2 Heritage and 1 CNG) all graded F or F detail. I grade this one VG for the issue. If anyone has info on others, please let me know. @1960NYGiants:Great find! The token that you present is the 7th of which I am aware. Here are the 4 others in private hands that are in my image bank (Which is starting to be relatively elaborate with nearly 13 000 tokens listed and many thousands of pedigrees). Note: You described the CNG and Heritage Auctions BL-44 as two separate tokens, when in fact they are one (See Example #2 below). #1 - ICCS - F-12 Cleaned #2 - NGC - F-12 Scratches - Ex. RH Collection, Donald G. Partrick & Warren Baker #3 - NGC - F-12 - Ex. Donald G. Partrick, Warren Baker & Richard W. Williams #4 - PCGS - VF-20 - Ex. TCNC Sale 2020-02 & Q. David Bowers
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12/03/2022 11:16 pm
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United States
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Nice examples! |
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Canada
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Great example, Gene. And thanks to Ainsivalavie for that roster.
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Canada
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12/04/2022 2:17 pm
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Canada
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This is amazing information. Have you published anywhere else?
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Canada
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This is amazing information. Have you published anywhere else? @NumisCat: Thanks. Eventually, it was planned for certain varieties, but I have too many projects in writting progress, so I ran out of time (and I was also waiting to get more feedback and do more research).
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12/05/2022 10:58 am
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Canada
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In the same kind, for those who are interested, I had produced a few months ago on the NumiCanada forum (Unfortunately only in French), some census with photos & pedigrees of known specimens for several rare tokens & coins.
Among them:
... ... ... ... I'd forgotten about this one: - Mule NF-4 (Variation Breton #955) - 5 specimens (To date): https://numicanada.com/forum/viewto...f=13&t=35444
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United States
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While in the process of neatening things up around here today, I found this nice Nova Scotia halfpenny token hiding out where it didn't belong. Interestingly, among both the British 1811-1820 tokens AND in the Canadian colonial series, it's the only token that bears the "Success to Navigation & Trade" legend. Withers reports five distinct varieties, while Charlton omits the double-punched "N" on the obverse picked up in Withers as W1427. This specimen is ex-Doug Robins via a Spink auction a few years ago in which I managed to win a half dozen excellent additions to the Non-Local or Anglo-Canadian corner of my collection. The image below is from Spink and was seriously overbrightened for their catalog; in hand the token is a nice milk-chocolate brown. It's NGC-slabbed at AU-55 BN and holds the top pop spot with none others graded. ( PCGS reports none graded as well.) BR 888, CH NS-23A1, Davis 68, Withers 1426 (RR).
I never pay too much for my tokens...but every now and then I may buy one a little too soon.
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United States
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Excellent example @daltonista
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United States
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Fantastic! |
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Canada
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Some extra-numismatic activities had drawn me away from colonial tokens for a while, but I was drawn back into the vortex with the following pickups. The Riseing Sun Tavern token Wood 24 (BL-41) and a very lightweight Lees 3 (BL-24A3).   After swinging and missing on a few examples of the Rising Sun Tavern token over the past couple years it was good to finally get this one! Quote:Put this one on layaway. An extremely rare Blacksmith, BL-44. This example is only the 6th one I have been able to identify. There are 2 in the Bank of Canada collection and 3 others with recent sales (2 Heritage and 1 CNG) all graded F or F detail. I grade this one VG for the issue. If anyone has info on others, please let me know. 1960NYGiants, spectacular! Those are very useful threads ainsivalavie. Do you have a census for the Wood 24 token? I have thus far been able to trace ~25 separate examples in my database with individual photographs. (I have not been able to further trace the 3 that appear in the 1987 Warren Baker Sale since my digitized copy has poor photo quality.) Cheers |
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