Let's see your exonumia!

1987 Red Book

1986 ANA Convention
1st Special edition printed.

scarcest, and most valuable with related ribbon:

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

A real nice collection of related exonumia Frank. That's the type of things I like to collect too.

Bruce

 

Thanks, they are fun to find and collect.

I have a bunch more, but I have to find the pictures

 

Thank You BRandM!!! A town is NEVER too small to collect local!!! lol,Good Luck in your future endevers!

 

I told a childhood friend( i have known for over 40yrs! )of mine that my Dad got me into "collecting" Coins by buying me a 46s BTW Commen.Back in the early 60's.Over the yrs. it had been lost.In the mail the other day came this!!! Such a good friend,I owe him one!!! HAPPY HUNTING EVERYBODY!

 

I forgot to mention that i have a peice from the artist who designed this medall,.999 PURE SILVER&a BRONZE one( shown in avatar),The Artist Kermit H.Hawkins obviously did this medal in stage's,I have a plaster "proof" of this medal.Signed around edge Kermit H Hawkins..It is barely ledgible but there!!! A few edge chip's as well but NO cracks or missing! It's not to often to have the Medal&part of the making process! Medal was made by the Famous( space medals )ROBBINS Co.

 

That's special ddollard. It's nice to have those companion pieces to go with one of your tokens or medals. I do the same with my counterstamps. Once in a great while I'll find a struck token (CWT, Merchant Token, etc.) issued by the same person or company that also issued counterstamps. Adds interest to my collection.

Bruce

 

Not that this is EXONUMIA but rather cool.I like to "Tie In" my collectible's as mentioned by BRandM in a quote si i figured it would not hurt to show this peice,Approx.5.5inX2.5inX1.5in. A peice of steel that weighs about 5-7lb's....One end reads B(?)EA LIGHT TEA/9-18-16,The other end reads 3023 ANOTHONY WAYNE BLOCK HOUSE ERIE PA/6-21-17...A die used twice!?! Then i found the spoon.So there is the"tie in"...

 

Not exonumia, but it doesn't trouble me much...Still very interesting. These tie-ins, companion pieces, or what you wish to call them can be applied to any type of collectible with the same interesting result. The more you learn about something, anything in your collection makes it more interesting and, thus, special.

Bruce

 

Speaking of companion pieces...when I got my first Orlando AFB token I wish I would have also bought a post card from there too, It may have been WWII era unless I'm rembering wrong.

 

I hadn't thought of that Jack, but a post card, letterhead, or something similar is a perfect companion piece. That's especially true for what you collect. Good call!

Bruce

 

That actually got me into chits, which I suppose are a bit more numismatic than post cards...

 

What are chits, Jack?

Bruce

 

Lemee fire up the ole scanner...

 

A little stroll through 20 and 21st century forms of military pay and trade from the top down.

First up is a military payment certificate. The note show in Vietnam era. These were used instead of dollars by the US military to protect local overseas economies from the strength of the dollar and as an effort to stop black market activities.

Below that are trade tokens issued by various bases at various times. The Air Force was the most prolific issuer of these tokens. I'm shakey on why these were used but I know they were used on bases at various establishments to make change for purchases and also as a way dependent civilians would show membership to the base (this is going back to a time when civilians had access to bases). I included a type from all the denominations that I have. There's a $2 out there and now that I think about it I think I may have a $0.20 token in my collection.

Below that we see the Smileage Book followed by two rows of chits. That chit book dates to the WWI era and can be dated by the individuals who issued it on the back (not shown here). If I remember correctly this book is from somewhere between 1917 - 1923. This book is comprised of $5.00 worth of $0.05 chits and they're all there. Looks like it was never issued. The chits below it are similar but printed on thicker paper, more like construction paper versus regular printer paper.

The chits below the book lead me to believe that later books had multiple values in the same book. These chits were used in a similar way as the tokens and could be used in conjunction with tokens (according to a member here). I want to say these books were no longer issued some time during Vietnam but I don't know enough yet. I'm looking forward to Ray Bows book, which is on the way, because I think he covers these chits. I also have come to understand that Fred Schwan is releasing a 5th edition of his catalog on MPCs...maybe he could include these?

Below I threw in a couple AAFES POGs, both a $0.10, just to bring it all up to date. I would have put my Eagle Card I was issued a couple years ago but it's not handy.

 

Thanks Jack, I didn't mean for you to go to so much trouble. I think you just taught me more in a few minutes than everything I knew previously about military forms of payment.

Bruce

 

Some of the script used by Ring a ding bros. shows back in the day
When the town gave the show a hard time. The show paid in script to let them know how much money the show put in to the local stores!


Can't seem to find the pic's of the MPC from Nam. Will have to look or take new.

 

If it IS WW2 then look on Epay and search the Base

 

So did Ringling pay his employees with scrip or use it with his customers?