NovaNumismatics

All About Coinages & Tokens from Colonial, Early State, Pre-Federal, Early American, Hard Times, Merchant, & Civil War Eras

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New York's Castle Garden Concert Hall & Token

Situated at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, Fort Clinton was erected as defensive countermeasure to British forces as the threat of war grew between the United States and Britain in the early 19th century. Construction of the massive fort began in 1809, and workers completed the complex in...

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tags: #BatteryPark, #CastleGarden, #ConcertHall, #EllisIsland, #Fitch, #FortClinton, #Immigrants, #JennyLind, #LolaMontez, #MillerNY654A, #NewYorkCity, #NY654, #RLWilson, #Rathbone, #RulauENY645A, #Trested

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Henry Miller & His Winter Garden Tokens

Born in Lobenstein Germany on April 2, 1820, Henry Miller emigrated to the United States on July 1st 1845.  Upon his initial arrival in New York City, Miller immediately located to Philadelphia. Upon his arrival in Philadelphia, Miller took a job as a scale-maker, and pursued this vocation ...

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tags: #720VineStreet, #722VineStreet, #Exonumia, #HenryMiller, #PA763, #PA763A, #PA763B, #Philadelphia, #Tokens, #WinterGarden

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Allegheny City and Its Tokens - Gone But Not Forgotten

Allegheny City was located just across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, PA.  It is now known simply as "the North Side" (See figure 1).  Allegheny was long ago absorbed by the growing city of Pittsburgh, but its memory lives on.  The Civil War Tokens of six merchants are part of th...

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tags: #AlleghenyCity, #CityTeaHouse, #CivilWarTokens, #Fuld, #Governor, #GreggDalzzel, #Grocers, #HahnRiddle, #JohnSherer, #NorthSide, #PA13A1a, #PA13B1a, #PA13C1a, #PA13D1a, #PA13E1a, #PA14F1a, #Pennypacker, #Pittsburg, #RWJenkinson, #Tobacco, #WilliamCarson

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Abolition - A Numismatic Perspective

Elizabeth Chandler's Image & Words, from 'Slavery Illustrated In Its Effects Upon Woman,' G. Bourne, 1837 History clearly records that the 1860 Presidential Race was a pivotal moment for the future of the United States. The movement for the abolition of slavery was not a quick phenomena,...

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tags: #186059, #Abolition, #AMINOTAWOMAN, #Awakes, #Chandler, #Dewitt, #DH289D, #HT81, #Miller, #Ny697, #Republican, #SC8, #Sl18591, #Slavery, #Token, #WWWILBUR

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The Tokens of Charles J. Raine, Lynchburg Virginia

Born in Appomattox Virginia in 1834, Charles John Raine arrived in Lynchburg Virginia sometime in the mid-1850s. Shortly after his arrival, he formed a partnership with Robert Henry Glass, and the two men opened a clothing store. Only a few years later, in December 1859, Raine bought out...

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tags: #1860, #CharlesJRaine, #ChasJRaine, #CivilWar, #Clothier, #Clothing, #Exonumia, #Lynchburg, #Miller, #MillerVA5, #MillerVA5A, #Token, #Tokens, #VA5, #Virginia

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The Apothecary & Soda Tokens of A.B. Taylor

Born January 6th 1824 in the city of Philadelphia, Alfred Bower Taylor began his pharmaceutical career at a very early age. During the early 1860s Taylor was a prolific advertiser, placing ads in local newspapers, as well as issuing a large variety of storecards. During his long and prosperous...

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tags: #ABTaylor, #AlfredBowerTaylor, #AlfredTaylor, #Apothecary, #Chestnut, #CivilWar, #Denticrete, #Druggist, #Medicines, #Orilote, #PA504, #PA505, #PA506, #PA507, #PA750U1c, #Perfumery, #Pharmacist, #Philadelphia, #SodaWater, #Storecards, #Teeth, #Tokens

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The Kittanning Bridge Company & Its Tokens

The Kittanning Bridge Company was formed in 1838 by an act of the Pennsylvania State Legislature. Its purpose was to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River and connect the towns of Kittanning with West Kittanning PA.  Until that time there was no fixed bridge that crossed the Allegheny ...

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tags: #Allegheny, #Atwwod, #Bridge, #Coffee, #Collapse, #Exonumia, #Kittanning, #PA515A, #PA515B, #PA515A, #PA515B, #River, #Rubber, #Tokens, #Tornado, #Transportation, #Vulcanite

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The Curious R.E. Russell Token Decrypted?

Speculation has long existed that the R.E. Russell storecard featuring Feuchtwanger's Obverse-6 die was struck for a New York City based merchant or business.  Russell Rulau his tokens books has asserted this, and many other exonumismatists have naturally assumed that because the token ...

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tags: #12½Cents, #Bale, #Botany, #Columbia, #Eagle, #Engraver, #Feuchtwanger, #Florist, #Garden, #GermanSilver, #HT309, #Obverse6, #RERussell, #RobertRussell, #SouthCarolina, #Token

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The Fenian Brotherhood Token of 1866

'Arrival of Canadian Militia Forces to Port Dalhousie, Ontario to Meet the Fenian Invasion of Canada' Unknown, c.1870[/caption] Shortly before the American Civil War, an Irish nationalist movement was formed in the United States. Founded by Irish immigrants John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny, it...

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Coney Island's Elephantine Colossus Tokens

Architected and designed by James V. Lafferty, an entrepreneurial developer, the Elephantine Colossus was erected in Brooklyn's Coney Island in 1885. Upon its construction, it became an immediate tourist draw. The structure was located above Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, and required more...

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tags: #Bradenburgh, #ConeyIsland, #ElephantBazaar, #ElephantColossus, #Exonumia, #James, #Lafferty, #Mccaddon, #NYBkn18, #NYBkn18A, #NYBkn18B, #NYBkn20, #NYBkn20A, #NYBkn22A, #NYBkn24, #Tokens

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Hot Dog Inventor Charles Feltman & His Tokens

Before there was Nathan's, there was Feltman's. History often has a way of remembering only the final victors, and in the case of Coney Island hot dogs, the annals of certainly possesses a case of amnesia. In 1856 Charles Feltman, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, arrived in New York City. There...

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tags: #25cents, #5Cents, #CharlesFeltman, #ConeyIsland, #Exonumia, #Feltman, #HotDog, #Merchant, #Nathans, #NewYork, #NewYorkCity, #NYBknUnl25, #NYBknUnl5, #OceanPavilion, #Tokens, #Trade, #Varieties

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Attributing the 1788 Barbadoes Coppers

There exists very little documentation about the 1788 Barbadoes [sic] copper penny emissions.  What does exist is scant, and from a diagnostic perspective, it is quite difficult to casually and easily attribute a specific variety of the 1788 Barbadoes copper. It is postulated that the Barbadoes ...

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tags: #1788, #Attribution, #Barbadoes, #Barbados, #Copper, #Diagnostics, #IServe, #Penny, #Pineapple, #Pridmore, #Trudgen, #Varieties

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Durfee & Peck's Indian Trader Tokens of Forts Union & Buford, Dakota Territory

Although Durfee & Peck tokens are not extremely rare, I acquired my first recently at the 2003 NTCA national show in Omaha. Remembering that I had read of the token series in one of my exonumia books, I began to search my exonumia library, for information on them. Finding very little...

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tags: #Buffalo, #Curto47½, #Curto48½, #Curto49, #DakotaTerritory, #DurfeePeck, #Exonumia, #FortBuford, #FortUnion, #FurTrade, #Horse, #IndianTraders, #MissouriRiver, #Steamship, #Tokens

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It Predated the Statue of Liberty.

It was the first structure seen by immigrants coming to NY.

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tags: #Colossus, #ConeyIsland, #Elephantine, #NYBkn24

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It measured 150 feet tall.

It was a concert hall, hotel & even a brothel.

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tags: #Colossus, #ConeyIsland, #Elephantine, #NYBkn22A

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Coney Island's Elephantine Colossus was built in 1885.

It burned down in 1896

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tags: #Colossus, #ConeyIsland, #Elephantine, #NYBkn20

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