1864 John Adams Bolen Store Card / Liberty Cap Medal. Musante JAB-9, Fuld-760A-6a. Rarity-8. Copper. Plain Edge. MS-65 RB (NGC). 28 mm. Mostly autumn-orange surfaces have hints of antique gold, pink and powder blue on both sides. The obverse is prooflike, the reverse less so. Here we have Bolen by Bolen, a Gem example of his portrait of himself -- one of relatively few 19th century numismatists depicted on tokens (the most famous being Augustus B. Sages Numismatic Gallery series of 1859 starting with Charles I. Bushnell).
