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UNITED STATES:AE halfpenny token. PCGS AU58

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UNITED STATES:AE halfpenny token. PCGS AU58
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UNITED STATES:AE halfpenny token, JAB-33, PCGS graded AU58, Bolen Copy, elephant left // GOD PRESERVE CAROLINA AND THE LORDS PROPRIETORS, RR, ex Jerry D. Williams Collection; ex Bowers & Merena. John Adams Bolen (1826-1906) was a diesinker, copyist, and medalist. He was born in New York City on 10 November 1826. He later moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 1850. He was in business as a diesinker, jeweler and agent for a sewing machine firm. He actively created dies from 1861-69. Bolen first copied rare Colonial coins; these pieces are accepted today by numismatists for what they are: struck copies. He also created patriotic medals and storecards. He was weak creating new designs, but was an excellent copyist. His dies are characterized by stark devices without further symbolism or decoration, often with reverses which were entirely typographic. Bolen kept meticulous records of his mintage figures for all his dies struck in several compositions and mulings. The dies for this type were cut in 1869 and he struck 40 examples. Bolen claims to have defaced the dies to prevent their further use, and presented them to the Boston Numismatic Society, but they are currently unaccounted for.