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Br. 925. North West Company token.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:5,000.00 CAD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 15,000.00 CAD
Br. 925. North West Company token.


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CH FT-10B. In copper Holed as usual. PCGS VF, with an indication that the surfaces have been tooled somewhat. As to be expected, there is some porosity, especially on the obverse. However, this is a very desirable example of a token that is much rarer in copper than in brass. It is noteworthy that the hole on the North West token is always applied from the reverse and always in exactly the same spot, through the top right half of the letter H and part of the border, and is always the same size. This precision suggests that the tokens were machine holed before they were distributed. The specimen in the Stack’s Bowers 2013 sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. collection, lot 21027, was graded choice VF and brought a hammer price of $18,000. The EF-AU example in our sale of the George Thomson collection in May 2014 realized $26,000 hammer. The present example Ex:John Temple.