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From: "Byron Weston" <bkw11@psu.edu>
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--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Kleeberg"
<jmkleeberg@y...> wrote:
> --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Steve Frank
> <taxi_steve929@y...> wrote:
> could it have bought more if noticed by more people?? Or did the
two
> high bidders just go real high and the winner got stuck??? anyone
> know??? Thanks. Steve
>
> I don't know about the price, but it may not be totally crazy. I
> know very little about these things, other than that: they are
> Irish, they are rare, they circulated in Ireland in the early
> nineteenth century, they are penny size (as opposed to most
> counterfeits, which are halfpenny size), they are made to look
> crude, there is an example of one in the American Numismatic
Society
> collection (but I can't find it on the database at the moment), and
> there is some article that mentions them in the British Numismatic
> Journal, but I don't know the exact reference. I believe the
> younger group (Vicken, John K. or Eric C.) know more about this
than
> I do - it was from one of them that I learned about the BNJ article.
>
> It's like those crude Irish counterfeit shillings - all I can do
> about those is to say, "Ah, a slap token," in a knowing voice, but
> that's about the extent of my knowledge.
>
> John M. Kleeberg
An obvious imitation of the 1805-6 Irish designs, John, but it could
have been made in either Ireland or Britain, likely Britain though.
Just an opinion.
Byron
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