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HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY - Fur Beaver Skins

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:350.00 CAD Estimated At:700.00 - 800.00 CAD
HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY - Fur Beaver Skins
SOLD
625.00CAD+ buyer's premium (125.00)
This item SOLD at 2017 Sep 29 @ 19:21UTC-4 : AST/EDT



Buyer’s Premiums will be added on all items as per the Terms & Conditions of the sale. Invoices will be emailed out after The Toronto Coin Expo.
2 / FBS / 1858 - This token has not been attributed with certainty. The only information available appeared in the November 1945 issue of the A.N.A, The Numismatist, pg.1212, part of which is copied next: “A recent addition to our collection of doubtful tokens classification is a curious uniface copper piece bearing the inscription 2 FBS 1858. It was attributed by an English dealer to the Canadian North-West. Classifying it as an “unpublished token”, he extended the abbreviation to read F[ur] B[eaver] S[kins]. If it were not for the pedigree of this piece [it was once part of a splendid collection of British Colonials] we would refuse to make our speculations public.” This token is very scarce. Example sold in 2008 for $2,500. Uniface, 29mm, cu. AU.