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The Token and Medal Society was founded on November 19, 1960, in Detroit and formally incorporated on April 8, 1966. [1] Among the founding members were well-known numismatists Q. David Bowers, Clifford Mishler, and Russell Rulau. [2] TAMS encompasses a wide range of material, including civil war tokens, hard times tokens, subway tokens and ...
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A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Across all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. [2] The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale in November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present.
^1 The George Washington Bicentennial half dollar was originally proposed as a traditional non-circulating commemorative coin. However, President Herbert Hoover vetoed the proposal in 1930. ^2 The Washington quarter was originally intended to be struck in 1932 only.
Generally, they have a merchant's name or initials, sometimes a town and state, and a value legend (such as "good for 5¢" or other denomination) somewhere on the token. Merchants that issued tokens included general stores, grocers, department stores, dairies, meat markets, drug stores, saloons, bars, taverns, barbers, coal mines, lumber mills ...
The value of the presidential inaugural medals has fluctuated over the years and is highly influenced by auctions and the current U.S. economy. For example, in 1980 there was the Great Gold and Silver Panic when silver was worth $50 per ounce and gold worth $800 per ounce.
The "BITIT" blacksmith tokens (Wood 33) is considered to be the most common of the Blacksmiths series, [25] and one of the most controversial in numismatic literature. The obverse contains the profile of George III with what Wood described as a "large pug nose", [26] while the reverse has a seated Britannia holding a shamrock. Unlike most ...
Evasion halfpenny, obv.: bust and inscription of George II, rev.: Britannia and date 1777, incompatible with obverse However, counterfeiters soon evaded the law by striking “coins” with designs or inscriptions slightly different from the originals; if caught, they would claim their products were different and not counterfeits. [ 1 ]