Let's see your exonumia!

Ha ha, reminds me of my grandfather. He grew up in "Bensonhoist." "Youse kids better knock it off."

 

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fuhgeddaboudit!

 

Nice pair of medals!

 

Great Britain 1905 Issued by British and Foreign Sailors Society Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson died 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. Copper Original price 1 Shilling. This Medal contains copper from The Victory.

 

This is a US Treasury award given for Helping in War Bond drives. This medal the size of a half dollar was struck in coin silver.

 

Lastly an WW I Pa. Service award Medal for service in WW I William Penn and a scene over the battle field with the US Eagle flying over

 

Hopkins 1850

 

Nice! I took a tour of the HMS Victory. They even had a brass plaque on the deck where Admiral Nelson was standing when the sniper got him.

 

Here's a couple new items i've picked up.
Grays Harbor plastic tokens, not sure who made them, but you could use them at there coin show in 1971, notice the reverse rotation. looks like they were selling these three in July 1971 for $5, on an old tag.

Grays Harbor is a small town on the Coast of Washington State.




The Boeing club mints a coin every year, back in the day they were one oz., now they are 1 1/2 oz. they made a few years of Gold 1 1/2 oz. pricey..
We have our coin show this weekend and i'll get my new metal , elongated cents and wooden nickles, i'll grab some extras for anyone who wants one.

I'm told that this rebate bill for 1 oz. of silver metal 1980, is only one of three left..

 

@Eng

I'm very interested to see your tokens from the Gray's Harbor Coin Show, 1971. I have a token from Yakota Air Force Base that is a red plastic square and it has a reverse rotation the same was as yours. I'll post a scan later...

 

Ok, so it will still be a little later until I post a scan of my red Yakota Air Force Base token that's square and has the same rotation. But I'll get around to it soon.

I wanted to toss a couple scans up but no write up for the bases/stations just yet...I'll save the Murphy Dome Air Force Station ones until later because I found some cool pictures to accompany the tokens and hopefully I can put together something interesting.

The one below was from Kotzebue Air Force Station, Alaska. I got it from John Kallman (or is it Kallaman...sorry if I got it wrong, I've been up a long time!) who helped contribute to the good book...er...Cunningham's Military Trade Tokens of the United States.


As usual the scan makes it look like junk (even though I get that these may be numismatic junk to some) and increases my desire to learn to photograph. I have four issues from Kotzebue: two in aluminum and two in brass, two five cent and two twenty five cent pieces. The aluminum twenty five cent is in uncirculated condition and I'm quite proud of it. All I need are the ten cent issues in both aluminum and brass and I will have completed the Kotzebue set.



The above issue is from Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo New Mexico. It's still an active duty base and is right there by White Sands Missile Range. This token was minted in nickel which leads me to believe it's older. I was watching this one for quite a while (maybe since Korea) but hesitated on pulling the trigger because the seller's pictures made it look quite poor. I am very pleased with it even though I felt like the seller wanted a little too much. Oh well. It usually seems like when I watch something for a long while and it doesn't sell when I buy it up after months of watching, another will come for sale and usually cheaper. This was sort of the case here - the day after I purchased it a $1 token came up for sale and cheaper than the ten cent. Well, I bought it outright and am eagerly waiting for it to grace my P.O. box.

That's all for now. Murphy Dome will have to wait.

By the way, there were WAY too many Air Force Stations in Alaska, and some of them went nuts with the different issues. Obviously they were trying to make this hard on me.

 

Very nice write up Jack. I've gotten some great Vietnam tokens from John Kallman when he was doing mail bid auctions. One was 1st MIBARS First Military Intelligence Battlion Aerial Reconnaissance Support and four tokens from the 1st and 2nd battlions 27th Infantry- Wolfhounds. I believe the Wolfhounds were also in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

@longnine009 You are too kind!

I think you are correct about the Wolfhounds being in Iraq - in fact they've been around since 1901 with 11 Medal of Honor recipients to their credit. Also, Captain Lewis Millet (at that time) was part of their unit who led the last bayonet charge against the enemy during the Korean War. I was fortunate enough to walk the very hill he had to charge up, as it's now part of Osan Air Base. Walking up the stars and sidewalk of that hill is probably disgraceful to his memory...the base commander lives at the top of the hill and there's a plaque there commemorating his charge. The street is also named in his honor.

If you have a picture, you ought to post yhat Wolfhound!

 

I would LOVE to get any "new metal , elongated cents and wooden nickles:!!!

As for the bill - what is it made from? Paper or wood?

 

I just received this medal from the South Bend Coin Club in the mail yesterday. I couldn't find much about the club, its history or otherwise.

It's big (50mm) and plated with silver I was told by the seller. I don't think it's silver plated, but the base metal looks to be copper. A tiny bit of the plating on the arm is scraped or worn off, and shows what looks like copper to me. Anyway, a nice impressive piece of club history.

Bruce

 

I'll see if can post one of them next week. Maybe, I'll even manage to spell battalion right.

 

Last tour unit. From Vietnam.
this was one first things I got once back home.

 

@Jwt708 Thank's for the info. on Captain Millet. I'm ashamed to admit that I missed it when I was reading about the Wolfhounds. I'll be sure add it all to my notes.

I watched an 8 part documentry once on the Korean War. Man, that mess must've been like "Hell coming to dinner."

 

What unit is it?

 

if that was a PBS series I Think its same one I watched.your right Hellish war but that what war is.
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