Let's see your exonumia!

We have finally heard from the "Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm".

 

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I like the (most probably) unintended double entendre of the above slogan:
1) SAVE...THE AMERICAN WAY as in "save like a typical American would"
2) SAVE THE AMERICAN WAY as in "let's keep America just the way it is"

 

Two more acquisitions from my current trip. The Tasmania one is, unsurprisingly, from Hobart. The Holloway one has been written up here: https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/82594

 

I really enjoy seeing coins from places I've never seen any from before.

 

A wooden draughtsman

 

Very nice. Love the detail!

 

Incredible!

 

I must admit, the participants on this thread come up with some incredible finds.

 

Whenever you think you've seen everything there is to see, you haven't.

 

I googled this and had no luck other than identifying the name of the radio telescope and finding one for sale on eBay . I still don’t know who made it or why. I’m pretty confident the telescope wasn’t built in 1863. Any info would be nice.

 

Impressive Civil War-era technology.

 

I imagine it's to show the advancement in the state since West Virginia (the 35th state, thus the star) was admitted as a separate state in 1863. It's likely the Green Bank telescope, which I find like most things in West Virginia is named for Robert Byrd. I don't think they elected him in 1863, it only seemed that way.

 

Oh yes indeedy, this is quite fitting; after all, who would argue that aspects of Mardi Gras aren't unquestionably as far-out and fanciful as anything the great Jules Verne himself ever dared to imagine.

 

I'm still in Australia, and went to a coin/stamp/banknote show in a Sydney suburb today (Sunday) that was well-attended, perhaps 20 dealers and it was reasonably crowded. I bought a few interesting exonumic things, which I'll post as time permits. I did like this, which set me back A$10 (US$7). Read the inscriptions carefully ...

 

Don't know what kind of school this is

 

In the spirit of Halloween, "Children Of The Corn"?

 

So here are more of my purchases from the coin show in Petersham, New South Wales (a Sydney suburb) yesterday, that is Sunday as we are right now 15 hours ahead of Eastern US time.

A lot of these came from one dealer, who had several pages of interesting world tokens, including several Scottish communion tokens I was very tempted by but ultimately passed on. None were very expensive, the one in the middle was the most, at A $25 (US $17). The US cent is there for size comparison purposes, sorry, I photographed this on my hotel bedspread so forgive the variation. They are from:

Top row: France, France, Tunisia as French colony
Second row: Algeria as French colony, Sri Lanka, UK
Third row: Indonesia, Australia, Australia, (US cent)

Along with the cent, the Sri Lanka and Indonesia pieces are coin alignment, all others medal alignment. On the triangular piece from Tunisia, the left-hand side (where the "C" in Casino is) is the side that is the foot underneath the "2".

I think they're good finds.