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UNITED STATES: Kunkel's Opera Troupe, 2 reales token (6.31g), ND (ca. 1850's), VF on Good-VG host

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UNITED STATES: Kunkel's Opera Troupe, 2 reales token (6.31g), ND (ca. 1850's), VF on Good-VG host
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UNITED STATES: Kunkel's Opera Troupe, 2 reales token (6.31g), ND (ca. 1850's), Brunk K-347, Miller-MD-86F, 27mm countermarked 1814 Guatemala 2 reales (KM-67, assayer M, key date), KUNKEL'S / (OP)ERA TROUPE, corded edge, VF on Good-VG host. According to Brunk, George Kunkel was born in Greencastle, PA in 1821. He managed theaters during the 1850's in Richmond and Washington. At one time John Wilkes Booth was part of his company at the Jenny Lind Theater in Richmond. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1855, where he managed the Old Front Street and Holliday Street Theaters. His company was known as Kunkel's Opera Troupe and specialized in minstrel shows. He died in 1855. Both varieties of countermarks, one in two-line and another in three-line configurations, appear to be equally scarce.