Circa 1858 F.C. Key & Sons store card. Musante GW-229, Baker-549C, Miller Pa-263M, for type. White Metal. MS-63 (PCGS).28.0 mm. Bright and reflective surfaces with essentially full brilliance. A few light hairlines in the fields, as typical. Struck with the reverse die a bit out of alignment which resulted in weakness at the rim toward 11:00. What would have been a substantial ridge toward 4:00, was smoothed off, likely by the maker to render it more presentable to 19th-century eyes. Just 16 were reported to have been struck in “tin” in the September 1860 Bangs, Merwin & Co. sale. Quite rare as such.Ex William Spohn Baker Collection, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by bequest, November 15, 1897.
