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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
From http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColC...ith.intro.html "The next group of Blacksmiths is in imitation of the Irish halfpenny with a bust obverse and an uncrowned harp reverse. There are three varieties, BL 34 - BL 36, of which Wood only knew of the first BL 34 (Wood 22). That copper has a crude bust left portrait, while BL 35 displays a bust right wearing a laurel wreath and cuirass (armor) and BL 36 has a bust left with laurel wreath and cuirass and a reverse with a backwards harp (that is, the small strings are to the left)." Mine is the BL 36 http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_1.jpg http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_2.jpg These are always worn looking since they were made this way to obscure the fact they were counterfeit. -- Robert Pearson ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music http://www.rspearson.com |
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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
Brainstormer wrote:
Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token? From http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColC...ith.intro.html "The next group of Blacksmiths is in imitation of the Irish halfpenny with a bust obverse and an uncrowned harp reverse. There are three varieties, BL 34 - BL 36, of which Wood only knew of the first BL 34 (Wood 22). That copper has a crude bust left portrait, while BL 35 displays a bust right wearing a laurel wreath and cuirass (armor) and BL 36 has a bust left with laurel wreath and cuirass and a reverse with a backwards harp (that is, the small strings are to the left)." Mine is the BL 36 http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_1.jpg http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_2.jpg These are always worn looking since they were made this way to obscure the fact they were counterfeit. Your coin cannot be BL-36, as the obverse portrait faces left, not right, as does BL-36. The reverse, with its prominent "blob" die defect, was used with an obverse die resembling, but not identical to, the one used to make yours, to make BL-35, as well as with a number of different obverse dies in the so-called "bust and harp" series, all numbered Breton 1012. On my screen your coin most closely resembles BH-26, as catalogued by Ingram and Marelik in their 2003 publication The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada. BH-26 is listed as an R-7 and priced at $72 Canadian in VG, which is about all your coin could muster, considering that the bust and harp series, as opposed to the blacksmiths, were much better-struck. James |
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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Brainstormer wrote: Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token? From http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColC...ith.intro.html "The next group of Blacksmiths is in imitation of the Irish halfpenny with a bust obverse and an uncrowned harp reverse. There are three varieties, BL 34 - BL 36, of which Wood only knew of the first BL 34 (Wood 22). That copper has a crude bust left portrait, while BL 35 displays a bust right wearing a laurel wreath and cuirass (armor) and BL 36 has a bust left with laurel wreath and cuirass and a reverse with a backwards harp (that is, the small strings are to the left)." Mine is the BL 36 http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_1.jpg http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_2.jpg These are always worn looking since they were made this way to obscure the fact they were counterfeit. Your coin cannot be BL-36, as the obverse portrait faces left, not right, as does BL-36. The reverse, with its prominent "blob" die defect, was used with an obverse die resembling, but not identical to, the one used to make yours, to make BL-35, as well as with a number of different obverse dies in the so-called "bust and harp" series, all numbered Breton 1012. On my screen your coin most closely resembles BH-26, as catalogued by Ingram and Marelik in their 2003 publication The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada. BH-26 is listed as an R-7 and priced at $72 Canadian in VG, which is about all your coin could muster, considering that the bust and harp series, as opposed to the blacksmiths, were much better-struck. I agree with your assessment except for the grade, which I would put at G at best, AG at worst. |
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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
They were supposed to look worn. It actually has a lot more detail
that most I've seen online. I'm a rare book dealer and I don't see any copies of that reference "The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada," you mentioned available. Can you name a publisher? RWF wrote: "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Brainstormer wrote: Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token? From http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColC...ith.intro.html "The next group of Blacksmiths is in imitation of the Irish halfpenny with a bust obverse and an uncrowned harp reverse. There are three varieties, BL 34 - BL 36, of which Wood only knew of the first BL 34 (Wood 22). That copper has a crude bust left portrait, while BL 35 displays a bust right wearing a laurel wreath and cuirass (armor) and BL 36 has a bust left with laurel wreath and cuirass and a reverse with a backwards harp (that is, the small strings are to the left)." Mine is the BL 36 http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_1.jpg http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_2.jpg These are always worn looking since they were made this way to obscure the fact they were counterfeit. Your coin cannot be BL-36, as the obverse portrait faces left, not right, as does BL-36. The reverse, with its prominent "blob" die defect, was used with an obverse die resembling, but not identical to, the one used to make yours, to make BL-35, as well as with a number of different obverse dies in the so-called "bust and harp" series, all numbered Breton 1012. On my screen your coin most closely resembles BH-26, as catalogued by Ingram and Marelik in their 2003 publication The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada. BH-26 is listed as an R-7 and priced at $72 Canadian in VG, which is about all your coin could muster, considering that the bust and harp series, as opposed to the blacksmiths, were much better-struck. I agree with your assessment except for the grade, which I would put at G at best, AG at worst. |
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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
Brainstormer wrote:
They were supposed to look worn. It actually has a lot more detail that most I've seen online. I'm a rare book dealer and I don't see any copies of that reference "The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada," you mentioned available. Can you name a publisher? Gregory S. Ingram and Branko Marelic self-published the title. ISBN is 0-9735186-0-X. So far they have released four spiral-bound titles, each specific to a narrow field of Canadian Colonial tokens. They list an address at P. O. Box 1272, Stn 'M' Calgary Alberta CANADA T2P 2L2 As far as I know they sell their books only on eBay, which is how I learned of their work. The other titles in the series are The Ships Colonies & Commerce Tokens of Colonial Canada, The Provincial Penny and Half-Penny Tokens of Nova Scotia, and The Tiffin Tokens of Canada. This dealer lists the title in question for sale: http://www.georgemanzcoins.com/books/tokens.html Toward the bottom of this page there is an illustration of a page from their book on Tiffin tokens: http://www.numicanada.com/forum/view...hp?f=13&t=5666 James |
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Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token?
RWF wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Brainstormer wrote: Value of a BL 36 Canadian Blacksmith Token? From http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColC...ith.intro.html "The next group of Blacksmiths is in imitation of the Irish halfpenny with a bust obverse and an uncrowned harp reverse. There are three varieties, BL 34 - BL 36, of which Wood only knew of the first BL 34 (Wood 22). That copper has a crude bust left portrait, while BL 35 displays a bust right wearing a laurel wreath and cuirass (armor) and BL 36 has a bust left with laurel wreath and cuirass and a reverse with a backwards harp (that is, the small strings are to the left)." Mine is the BL 36 http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_1.jpg http://www.paramind.net/ebay/Canadia...th_Token_2.jpg These are always worn looking since they were made this way to obscure the fact they were counterfeit. Your coin cannot be BL-36, as the obverse portrait faces left, not right, as does BL-36. The reverse, with its prominent "blob" die defect, was used with an obverse die resembling, but not identical to, the one used to make yours, to make BL-35, as well as with a number of different obverse dies in the so-called "bust and harp" series, all numbered Breton 1012. On my screen your coin most closely resembles BH-26, as catalogued by Ingram and Marelik in their 2003 publication The Bust and Harp Tokens of Canada. BH-26 is listed as an R-7 and priced at $72 Canadian in VG, which is about all your coin could muster, considering that the bust and harp series, as opposed to the blacksmiths, were much better-struck. I agree with your assessment except for the grade, which I would put at G at best, AG at worst. As with some of the Machin's Mills and Bungtown coppers that were made in the U.S. during the pre-Federal era, a lot of these Canadian pieces were made as "imitations." Sometimes they were imitations of imitations of imitations, and by the time they got down below the cutoff for "blacksmith" pieces, wherever that is, grading is guesswork at best, a moot point at worst. The fact that Ingram & Marelic set VG as their lowest grade may speak volumes about their assessment of these pieces. But I do agree, it has the look of an AG, which, of course, was often the objective of the manufacturer. James |
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