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1972 China hand shacking medal. is this silver ??? any info on this 1 would be great. thanks

 

Peace and Friendship hand shack medal

 

1976 United Nations hand medal

 

Thanks Bruce. Those countertamps are nice :thumb:. It's a huge bonus to see them too, given that I too enjoy Baltimore (Maryland in general) tokens. A prolific number of tokens -- and countertamps -- originate from Baltimore.

To follow your theme, I'll post a few Baltimore tokens from the cabinet. Most aren't from the show.

 

I don't have a Knight's Mineral Water stamp Cheetah, but do have a Kunkel's. The stamp is very well struck like yours but the coin has more wear on it. It was from Greg Brunk's collection and had auction tags included. I bought it from Dave Gale several years ago. I like your other Baltimore tokens very much, especially the SDT piece.

Bruce

 

A challenge coin given to me by a researcher at DARPA (defense advance research projects admin) for a demonstration I presented to them.

 

Hey, maybe you guys can shed some light on two mint medals that I received back when I was much younger. They were given to me by my father around 1964/65 and measure approximately 26mm in diameter......







Any idea of when they might have been struck? I seriously doubt they were struck back in 1881/1882.......

 

Here the link to the GOLD version of your garfield medal:

http://goldbergcoins.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/4/lot/14923/

I believe yours is old and awesome! lots of modern repros, not quite the same pattern, but yours looks like its old.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1881-james-garfield-death-medallion-167606504

Here is a link to your medal, saying it's original - 1881 1/2 SWEET

 

Looks like wood ster has them covered Ken. Nothing to add except that I like them both...especially the Garfield medal.

Bruce

 

Great looking thread here. :thumb: Here's a trio I recently bought, the Crank Club Token was a weird one for me to figure out. It has Copper-Clad written right on the obverse there, so I couldn't figure it out. Anyways, I thought it had something to do with cranksters at first. Then I thought it had something to do with a copper clad coin club. I was wrong on both of those guesses. The Token is from the early 1900's and is an advertising token for a stove manufacturer. The King Head Token is for King Whiskey which I've never heard of, so I gotta research. The last of the trio is a starch advertising token. Starch used to be pretty popular at one point but not so much anymore.

 

Ken , cool that you found out it's an original and not a restrike . I liked it even when I thought it was a restrike .

 

I don't know, I'm still leaning toward re-strike.......

 

I'm really digging your latter specimen. Also, did you photograph these Ken?

 

Yes indeed......

 

Ok here's one I went for last night. If anyone can tell me about when and how these were used - especially if they've ever used them, that would be great!

(Purchased from & photo courtesy of LostDutchman - thanks!)

 

Even as a young man of 22, George III apparently was a bit jowly.

 

They are currently used at the commissary at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Open mess means: A military base operated restaraunt serving food throughout the day. The food and all commissary items, are sold to the military personel and their families that live on base, at government cost. The non-commisioned officers, (NCO) which includes almost all the enlisted men out of basic training, were issued these tokens instead of carrying cash around. If any visitors or guests wanted to purchased food, or any other item at the commissary, they would be charged full price and sales tax. Families using tokens would get the NCO price of the item without tax. It serves as a form of quiet identification.

 

Here's mine...I don't consider copper a form of "Bullion" as it is not in my book at least, a precious metal. These I'm sure are a dime a dozen so to speak, I paid $10 for 5 of them and ended up getting a "bonus" one from the seller, just gives me one to give away in my next contest. I look at these as something that looks good in my cent collection.

But, here it is, a variant on the 1909 S Lincoln Wheat Cent.