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DirtFisher New Member United States 5 Posts	Posted 02/08/2012 6:28 pm Just a couple months ago there was a show on tv about "history of the states", forgot the exact name of show, but they talked about Tennessee coal mines and how miners were enslaved to the company and how hard it was to get out. Do the tokens say "not exchanged for wages" as a legal formality or are those tokens that were after the miners rebelled for better treatment? Report this Post to the Staff
CheetahCats Pillar of the Community United States 731 Posts	Posted 02/09/2012 5:42 pm The tokens were stamped as a legal formality. States passed laws outlawing issuance of scrip for wages, in lieu of U.S. Currency and Coin. As per the question about rarity, you can find more information on the topic here, where various rarity scales are outlined, including the Edkins' coal scrip rarity scale: http://www.novanumismatics.com/arti...arities.html Report this Post to the Staff
biggfredd Rest in Peace United States 9104 Posts	Posted 02/12/2012 01:47 am Quote: Is a R-6 rating that good? There are several rarity scales, you'd have to see what that book's scale is defined at. R-8 and R-9 are usually the lowest, with R-9 meaning unique in some scales, or 1-3 known in others. R-1 usually means common. Report this Post to the Staff
CheetahCats Pillar of the Community United States 731 Posts	Posted 02/12/2012 02:06 am Quote: There are several rarity scales, you'd have to see what that book's scale is defined at. R-8 and R-9 are usually the lowest, with R-9 meaning unique in some scales, or 1-3 known in others. R-1 usually means common. Indeed. My article's link, as previously posted, covers the following scales: URS/Bowers, Sheldon/EAC, Rulau, Fuld Civil War & Patriotic, Fuld Sutler, Breen's, Chibbaro's, Edkins', Overton's, the Van Allen & Mallis, the Pollock, Seaby/Rayner, and the Freeman/UK. http://www.novanumismatics.com/arti...rarities.php They are too extensive to post here. As previously stated in an earlier reply, the Edkins' scale is what applies to the coal scrip within this thread: Edited by CheetahCats 02/12/2012 02:19 am Report this Post to the Staff
thetracer Valued Member United States 59 Posts	Posted 03/02/2015 9:56 pm I am no expert on tokens or mining currency. I do study Tennessee history and know about the mines, which are mostly unknown to current residents. I have heard of tokens, currency, and script, and maybe some other nouns, but do not know about all of them. I was struck when I saw the pictures of the TN mining co tokens. While I kinda knew that they probably had them, I had never seen any before. So, I had to go to google, and found one image: Report this Post to the Staff
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