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A glossy deep tan specimen with warm brown and rose highlights. A popular muling, here
combining the LIBERTY & COMMERCE 1794 obverse of the Talbot Allum & Lee token with
a 1793 PROMISORY HALF PENNY die that features a stork as its central motif. In the latest
issue of The Conder Token Collector's Journal (Vol. X, No. 1, Spring 2005), in an article
titled "The Conder Token that Never Was," author Bill McKivor draws an in-depth
study of the issue, including the known mules. There the author calls this particular die
combination, somewhat plentiful, noting, "this token is hardly ever found other than
in EF or better," which certainly seems to fit the qualifications of the present
coin. Sharp and attractive.
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