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From My Unknowns Box: A Bust And Harp Attribution Challenge

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Pasted in below is a Bust & Harp I found back in the early 1980's in someone else's Unknowns box, probably for a quarter or 50¢. The only note on the card inside the flip is: "10 strings, 7 flaps," so I'm thinking that must have been relevant to the old Haxby-Willey classification, since that's the book for Canadian tokens that was in use around that time. (My 6-8 editions are all in cold storage at the moment.)

Checking this token out tonight, here in 2020, against the five-page Busts & Harps section in my Charlton 10th, I think I've narrowed it down to LC-60-7. Its deep chocolate brown color sure makes it look like copper, which would be LC-60-8, but the lighter color at the worn spots suggests it may be brass. Big value difference in the VF-EF range!

Other clues for me are the bubble in front of George IV's face; the arrangement of those decorative elements in the king's shirt; the roly-poly angel on the harp; and the fact that the shamrocks on the harp don't match any of the other photos in Charlton.

Please take a look and see if you can confirm my conclusion, or whether you'd assign a different CH number altogether, and which one.

My thanks to all!
Tom
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I think you got the attribution correct. Whether its composition is copper or brass, however, is not known for sure until it's zapped with an XRF. I've been told that it's essentially impossible to distinguish worn copper/brass visually.

Now, whether or not there are noticable differences in die states between copper and brass varieties would be a worthwhile investigation for this, along with other examples in the Bust and Harp series.
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