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Purchased on PCGS BST from Dennis Wells (DCW) Dead Cat Waltz This token was personally owned by Q. David Bowers. He had his collection of civil war tokens certified by PCGS in special labels with his likeness on the back of the slab and his facsimile autograph. It is also pedigreed back to R & T, which is the firm of Rossa and Tanenbaum. This was placed into Rich Rossa's personal collection long ago, and Dave had first pick. It has been taken care of for 156 years! C. Bahr/"Erinnerung" (Remembrance) of 1863, New York, NY overstruck on an 1863 Cent PCGS MS63 In Civil War tokens, there are two categories: Patriotics and Storecards. They both served the general purpose of providing small change during the conflict which saw the general hoarding of all precious metals, including copper cents. The difference between the two categories is pretty simple: while patriotics utilized imagery of flags, cannons, eagles, etc., Storecards had advertising info for specific merchants. In this case, C. Bahr, a liquor dealer in NYC had his merchant info on the back of a stock die 1240 "Erinnerung an 1863" German for "Remembrance of 1863." His business location was the Cor of Cliff and Frankfort St. This particular token may well be unique, because rather than have been struck on a normal planchet, it was OVERSTRUCK on a copper nickel 1863 Cent (with great detail at that.)
Charles A. LuhrsF-630AR-1do overstruck on a 1859 Indian Cent PCGS MS65 top pop 1 of 1. Ex. Q. David Bowers, $1200 An amazing overstrike! Struck over a copper nickel 1859 Cent, here is a lovely Gem grade beauty with colorful toning on both sides. The pictorial of the beer glass has always a popular motif with crossover appeal to collectors of breweriana.
Alot of people consider the quarter size Lindenmueller tokens quintessential to the CWT series. The iconic depiction of Gustavus Lindenmueller himself graces the obverse, sporting the Duck Dynasty beard. In copper, they have to be the most common Civil War token out there. Perhaps minted into the hundreds of thousands. Not so in brass, where examples like this one come few and far between with only a handful known. This has to be the finest example extant, a full MS65 gem loaded with eye appeal, and having been locked away in the personal collection of Rich Rossa and Q. David Bowers. If you wanted just one example of this famous token for a special collection, this one would be hard to beat.
