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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Was picking through a gallon jug of tokens at the LCS when I found (and purchased) this. Well, it is a token. Appears cleaned. Is that common for nearly 200 year old tokens? Does it have any value like this?   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well, it's certainly cleaned. Others will assess value.
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 United States
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thank you Spence. That is where I learned it was an 1835 halfpenny token. I didn't know if a prior cleaning was a huge impact on the value of this token.
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United States
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Ah ok sorry for telling you stuff that you already know then. I don't know about values so will defer to the Canadians on that subject.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Canada
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The Ships Colonies and Commerce coins are out there in abundance. The most common ones go for $10-$20ish (of course there are rarer issues that go in the hundreds)
As for yours, sorry I don't have my reference books handy and can not determine the variety, but it's safe to say that if it's a common $10 piece then in this condition it is worth pretty much nothing. If it's a rare variety that could have been worth $100 then you can safely knock a zero off that price.
The market for Canadian colonial coinage is definitely seeing a renewed interest, but as the whole coin market is a little soft right now collectors are only paying good money for good coins. Problem coins just aren't selling.
As to the other part of the question of "is cleaning common for 200 year old coins"? ... yes, and no, depends on your definition of cleaning.
Over 150+ years these tokens, and others from the same time frame, will have almost always been subject to a rub and/or a light wash, but it rarely affects the patina and is commonly overlooked considering the age and the degree of impairment to the coin. That said, yours hasn't be "cleaned"... it has been murdered...
someone undid 150 years of history in 150 seconds. /sad
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like PE-10-38 to me, Double H, cut knob, no line to sprit sail. F to VF details net VG $9CAD
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Australia
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As for the cleaning, well, it's got some clear evidence of pitting and cratering on both sides. I suspect it was either a metal-detecting find, or a coin suffering from severe bronze disease. Either way, the cleaning was probably necessary: I'd consider "cleaned coin" definitely an upgrade from "ruined, corroded coin".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Canada
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over time, it may regain some of its patina.
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Posted 12/16/2019 7:38 pm
