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***Auction Highlight*** 1837 Feuchtwanger HT-268 R3 Hard Times Token 1c Graded ms64 By SEGS (fc)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 1,200.00 USD
***Auction Highlight*** 1837 Feuchtwanger HT-268 R3 Hard Times Token 1c Graded ms64 By SEGS (fc)
***Auction Highlight*** 1837 Feuchtwanger HT-268 R3 Hard Times Token 1c Graded ms64 By SEGS. Up for Auction is a terrific Choice Uncirculated Feuchtwanger Cent. The strike is typical for the issue with softness at the obverse center, but with strength of design in all other areas. A choice and appealing specimen of one of America's "what may have been" coinage attempts. Hanging on the wall of the present writer's (FVV) Wolfeboro, New Hampshire office is a framed period letter set in typeface on laid paper with CIRCULAR in large bold letters at the top of the page and with the following below in a smaller font and repeated here with the original upper and lower case spellings intact: "I SUBMIT for your consideration a specimen of a one cent piece made of American Composition, known by the name of German Silver, equivalent in value to One Cent in Copper, which I propose with the authority of Congress, to substitute for the existing unclean and unhealthy Copper Currency by which a handsome current coin may be obtained answerable for the fractional parts of a Dollar, and acceptable in the operations of trade and local purchases. If this 'Silver Penny' as I wish to have it designated shall be approved by Congress as a substitute for the one Cent pieces, I shall in that case, propose to remunerate the Mint for any loss sustained by the United States by the withdrawal of the Copper Coin. I am ready to contract for the delivery at the Mint of any amount of the Composition which Congress may authorize [sic] to be coined." It is mechanically signed in italic type face "Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger, with NEW-YORK CITY. below the "signature." Two high-grade Feuchtwanger cents are also within the frame to illustrate the obverse and reverse. Although the Feuchtwanger cent is part of the Hard Times token series and normally would play to a very limited audience, it has been showcased in The Guide Book of United States Coins for many years, thus vastly expanding the audience for it. A Corey's Pick, Bid to Win, Don't let it get Away Coin