1852 Bank Token

Yes---Rim hits that extend into the denticles represent serious damage---Lovely doubling with great EF details. A great collector specimen to keep until you get a replacement---Sell for 40% of retail?

what sort of premium would this carry over its more common counterparts?

based on these absolutely horrible pictures, could one assume that this looks to be the same variety ?

Wow----it looks to be a variety to me---it must be extemely rare and not merely a mint error---my value estimate is the $11 X 50 = $550.The next trick is to get it recognised.

Nowadays very few collect the St. George series by Courteau number.
Within the series, there are well over 300 listed varieties, and I
have most of them. True, many varieties are super rare, but what is
even rarer is the knowledgeable collector of Courteau varieties. And,
the few serious collectors of this series privy to me have similar
collections. Currently, the number of collectors is not sufficient
to generate the expected prices for the comparable rarity.

In bygone years, tokens were all that was available for numismatists
to collect...then along came decimals, and tokens lost favour. Slowly
interest in tokens is re-emerging. For now, prices are being governed
by condition, and not variety rariety.

doug

Numismatic pioneers such as Breton, McLachlan, Sandham, Lees, Wood, Gibbs, etal.,
each have indicated rariety data. Many of the works are rather generic and do not
recognize individual die-varieties within a given series. Other works provide a
rather extensive study of varieties (such as the Ships, Colonies, and Commerce
tokens, and the Bouquet Sou). Amongst the authors, the rarity factors provided
are comparable.

However, concerning the Habitant, St. George, Bank of Montreal series, Prince Edward
Island, etal., Doctor Courteau was the sole researcher to publish detailed studies
of die-varietes within the series. I do not know how Dr. Courteau arrived at his
rariety determination, other than to speculate being from a sound educated opinion.

As for Dr. Courteau's rariety scale, he used a scale of 1-10, with 1 being common.
Breton used a scale of 1-5, with 1 being common. Other researchers were similar.

Concerning specific populations, I am unaware of any relevant data as extensive
population data has never been compiled...and absent exhaustive research, the data
would be speculative. Aside from this most concur that Dr. Courteau's rarieties
are acceptable.

A similar situation is found in ascertaining rarieties of the hundreds of varieties
of the 1859 Victoria ONE CENT, identified in Dr. Haxby's masterful tome. At present,
insufficient data has been tabulated to render an accurate assessment. True, however,
many can form an educated guess as to what is rare, by what they are still lacking.


enough for now.

doug

my own version (updated pics)