Description

New York City Monk’s Metal Signs  NY630BB-15f (silver)   

RARITY 8     NGC  MS-64          ex Donald Partrick and one of 

only two tokens in the NGC Census

Charles Monk had a sign company in the New Haven Rail Road

Building during the Civil War.  He obtained store card tokens

from local token maker Emil Sigel.  Two custom dies

were prepared and used to strike tokens for circulation on both

copper and brass planchets.  Both custom dies were also

combined with stock reverse dies for additional token

production.  This is one such token that combined the original

reverse die with the scarce “United Country” die.  On this

token, the merchant is identifiable only by the business

address.  It is an extremely rare and possibly underrated

variety.  As noted on the slab label, this token was previously

in the collection of Donald Partrick where it resided for

approximately three decades…………….