August 24, 2020: "Upper Myddel"

Author:
M. Agre

Concept:
Ah yes, the Myddelton Token, a superbly executed triumph of numismatic art described by Sylvester Crosby in his 1875 “Early Coins of America” thusly: “In beauty of design and execution, the tokens are unsurpassed by any piece issued for American circulation.”

And while that is undoubtedly true, we’ve always been intrigued by the name and its perhaps unexpected spelling. A fact we sought to highlight with an Upper Middle / Upper Myddel switcheroo describing this superb, stone cold original Choice Proof example.

Captions that didn’t make the cut:
This proved to be quite a challenge this week, since we knew we wanted to pursue the Middle / Myddel theme, but were hard pressed to find many useable phrases that had any sort of positive connotation.

Until MaryAnn swooped in and saved the day.