Boldly struck. Deep gray silver with excellent reflectivity and soft variegated pastel overtones throughout. Finely executed by J.F. Thomas of Newark, New Jersey, whose mark is nicely hidden in the truncation. According to DeWitt, Thomas engraved token dies for the campaigns of 1840 and 1844, but this type was not known to either Bushnell or Satterlee, suggesting a later vintage than the campaign of 1852, but certainly not much later. Struck on a thick flan, although DeWitt notes that silver examples were on thinner planchets. With McCoy ticket reading, "McCoy / Sil. / 1st seen."，，，Ex Wayte Raymond; F.C.C. Boyd estate; our sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XXIV, September 2013, lot 10651. Paper envelope with attribution notation included, as well as aforementioned McCoy ticket.<br />
