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(1848-51) Token Miller Pa-59 Brass Browning Brothers

Strike Type
1848 Store Cards coin

Coin Details

Year
1848
Denomination
Store Cards
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
Merchant Store Cards
Composition
Brass
Weight
4.5g
Diameter
19mm

Auction Record

Price realized
$312
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Grade
MS66
Auction house
Stack's Bowers

Description

Browning Brothers were wholesale druggists at 33 Market Street in Philadelphia, founded by Maurice Browning around 1839. The firm also operated "Aroma Mills," a manufacturing facility in Camden, New Jersey, where they produced pharmaceutical preparations and drug compounds for wholesale distribution. Their brass token (Miller Pa-59) advertised the drug wholesaling business. Browning Brothers served as middlemen between drug manufacturers and retail pharmacists, a critical role in the pharmaceutical supply chain of mid-nineteenth-century America. Cataloged as Miller Pa-59.

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Miller Pa-59

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