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The Journal of NECROMANTIC NUMISMATICS The Journal of NECROMANTIC NUMISMATICS A Quarterly Publication for Collectors of Magicians' Coins and Tokens Issued by Volume J F. William Kuethe, Jr. Number t/.....th 700 Glenview Avenue, S.W. Date ()e.;r. /f6t Glen Burnie, Maryland 21061 I Tet: 301-766-3842 f. William Kuethe, Jr. 700 Glenview Avf", S. W. Glen Burnie, 1\\J. 21061 Collector of: Magic Books & Magazmes - Mag1c1an's Coins & Tokens - Bookplates Editor! The Magic Cauldron THE WILLARD COMMEMORATIVE COIN This coin was struck by Orbra J. Mathews of P. O. Box 493, Sebring , Florida 33870 in the summer of 1968 and first adver­ tised in the September issue of Genii Magazine. There were one thousand struck in nickeleen and twenty-five in .999 silver. Both issues were serial-numbered, but the numbering was put on a separate card and not on the coin itself. The nickeleen coin sells for $2.00 and with it you get a Willard poster. The silver variety costs $12.00. I bought a number of the nickeleen coins, and I'm enclosing one with each copy of the Journal, with my eompliments. THE MINI-MASCOT The Mascot pieces of both Anna Eva Fay (AEF) and The Fays are well known as having very irregular, wavy edges. This is apparently the result of being struck without a collar, so the force of the strike pressed the metal in the planchet into irregular directions. At least this is the explanation I '11 accept until a better one comes along. T~ere is another Fay piece that does not fit this pattern, however. It is listed in Findlay as #37, but described in error as having a wavy edge. This coin is perfectly round and is 25 mm in diameter. TherFuld collection has examples in both copper and brass, but mine and all others I have seen are brass. Another item of interest in 'Ehe Fuld collection is a large Anna Eva Fay coin that is perfectly round. I've made rubbings of the regular large variety of AEF and the small coin described in this article, and they may be found at the bottom of this page. Misc. comments: Thanks to Jay Marshall, Bob Lund and Ingemar Isaksson for helping to make this a lumpy magazine. Deadline for the next issue: Jan. 1, 1969. The Mulholland Coins These notes a.re to 1·ecord the details of the three different coins I have put out; their designs and itistory . The first, on one side, had a rabbit in a hat pictured in front cJf the letters of my name, The steel d :i..e was engraved by hand in the shop of a rnanufactor:in,:_: jeweler, the late Josh W.Ma. j'er) who also was (ill a.tna.teur magician. The reverse :.if the coin was blank bi.it with a ra1sed rim. 1500 of the :::oins were ,,truck in aluminuni, 6 in silYer, and 1 in gold which we.A e;iven 'o my mother who, I beJ_ieve, lost Lt. The desi;91 on the C•)in 1 as based u ;n a. drv : ing (shown below) by the late WiLl H . .Schrinck. lfo-w, rer, as the Schanct rawing d es not fit "W!'lll into J_ circle, the 0:-i­ graver altere the desj " so that L would 'it on the < ~oin. He .18.de the nr: t'~ ta : <''~ le-sli sje.0e an '. he also ·ede the re. bit face irore direcf~ly front. I never lie iC' be~P able to have ·" sa.tisfac t'ry photoc; aph, or 'rawing mad , of t.h1s coin so as tr: sb)W the great. skPl of' the r ~aver. The r;econ( coib.; rrry r'.hines".') ·m"- pictun J below, wa.3 designed JY the late Ifowlmd Wood who was liirector of the _ti_rooric1....n Numismatic Society's museun1 ln New York City. I had gone to him to enquire ·if there were a Chir1es~ coin (one w-ith a center hole) of the size of a halr dollar. Re said there was n.ot but became interested in m;y quest 8.l:\d wa.s struck by the fact that my full naioo bas but tour syllables. After so~ research he found tliat, :i.n Chinese, the closest he could come to the som1d of my name was ''Chong - Mo - baiil - laing. That final G, by the way, is alioost silent. Re was ')nost pleased, as obviously was I, to note that the rooa.ninc; of those four sounds is "Oontrol-ler Devil's Knowledge (and] Skill." there always are four, aud only fo'l:lT.) characters to a. side on this type of C'ninese coin. They are read in the order ... top, bottom, left 1 rie-,ht. So r.iy name is on the obverse. 'rhe reverse of the coin. carries the characters pronom1ced, "May- quo J New- Yoe ." This was the clos~ est the first Chinese to this country could come to the sot.rods of "America, New York. Accordbvg to Mr .Wood, these character, too, have. intere sting meanings. ''Beautiful cQuntr:f' and i•to turn around -- to run about." One as desOJ:"iptive of the nation as are the others of the City. Ofly fortt of these Chinese coins W'3re made. They were cast in copper by a jewle:r in the Harris Bazaar, in B1.1c10_t>est ,H,mgry. It is quite obvious that being designed my an American and made in Hungry ere authentic ancient Chinese coins . Parenthetically, in my collection I hase a counterfit cast in brass a.na not as clear ln the casting . Who made the cD1m.terfit, or how many such coins were m.aO.e, I d.; not kno'W. However, that r:.:011nterfit might be called a spurtous example .if an illegitimate original. My third coin is the work of the late Henry Herring, the noted scu#lptor. 'J'hi5' coin also was ma.de half-dollar s .i. ze. In order better to show the details of the design, the drawing of the reverse of the C'' in is shown below in greater than e:ctua.1 size. The rabbj '.'by the ·w y, is ar excell ent likeness of a pet I had ut. the ti:ioo the >cu.l:pturir' . was don~. The di s, for this coin were 0oo chanicall cu.'tr by the Medali~ Ants Co n any of Ee'' York, fr m the eigbt and one-q tarter 1.ncl sculptured pJ.o.qu.ea. 2: 1(J were st1 ck in bY ri.ze, 10 in silver, a.nJ one, gi VE. to nzy wife, was msiie in gc _d • John Mulholland 11 West Chase street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 OFF..JiE:l'AL TOKENS It is nornial to associate a token with the type metal of which it is made. Cortini pieces are of aluminum while Tarbell's are :in a german-silver type of alloy. We also accept a.s a matter of fact tokens that appear in two types of metal. Thurston pieces in brass am copper are well lmown as are Mayette' s in aluminum and gilt. Even the 11arti:nka tokens in brass, copper, aluminum, germ.an-silver and gold plate are recognized as normal issues, for we know they were prOO.uced in oammeroia.l quantities. Every once in a while a token is encountered, which though struck fran a norm.al die, is in a metal not previously recorded for that piece. These off-metal tokens pose sane problems. To test a die, pieces a.re san.etimes struck in brass (ocoasionally in lead), and the quantity made is usually vecy small. In the. case of off-metal tokens struck in other metals, it is just about impossible to determinE! the reason for their manufacture. All of us whould be gratef'ul to John Mulholland for giving us the story of his various pieces. The few special strikings in silver am gold are the off-metal pieces and we are fcrtunate in kn<Ming their history. But consider the case of BiJJ. Kuethe's G. Milton Chase piece that is made of brass. The norme.l metals for the Chase pieces are gennan-silver a:rxi a nickel plated metal. The latter has a slightly different ring fran the brass piece, but those of us who have thetn are not about to scratch one to see what the base metal is. There were numerous issues of the Downs piece, all in white metal with its characteristic polished surface, gray edges and dull clink. ::But. less lmown is the piece in germe.n-silver, one of which is :ll1 my collection. The Nurnburger Zauberth&ler is in aluminum, but it also exists in the form o:f a thick brass piece which appears to be silver plated. Ireland's dollar size to- ken exists in brass, and Jay Marshall who owns it, indicates that it was indeed a test piece. The tokens o:f the Fays are copper, but there are sane that are magnetic (presumably steel) and these a re infrequently seen. The Chicago Magic Co. tokens are of ger­ man,...silver, all that is, but the brass one I recently acquired. It is a clean, crisp spec:i1nen (the design shows balls between the fingers)~ a sharper striking than the regular pieces, which leads me to believe tha.t it was a test piece. At the same time I ac­ quired what must be the latest example of an off..uetal piece, a standard Tannen token made of aluminum.
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