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Coin Details
| Design Description: |
Merchant |
| Item Description: |
NY 1860 NEW YORK M-NY-428 Q.DAVID BOWERS COLLECTION |
| Full Grade: |
NGC MS 65 |
| Owner: |
coinsarefun |
Owner Comments:
From the Stack's 2010 Americana Auction
From the Q. David Bowers Collection; ex Ford, Jr. Collection; previously ex F.C.C. Boyd.
By George Hampden Lovett. Obv. Jolly Regency era smoker, NO PLEASURE CAN EXCEED – THE SMOKING OF THE WEED. Rev. Crossed pipes over tobacco box, issued by a famous pioneer numismatist and American Numismatic Society officer, J.N.T. Levick (1828-1909). This token was voted for listing in The 100 Greatest American Medals and Tokens book