Let's see your exonumia!

The Surrender of Napoleon, 1815. BHM #884 by Webb and Brenet.

 

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Sadly I have added little to my exonumia collection in some time...and not much in my ancient collection either since I moved back to the U.S. Just been slow...more expenses and less money. My computer has been on its last leg for a year so taking pictures and editing them has not happened. I'm so behind on getting shots of all my tokens!

Anyway today I randomly browsed eBay and lost out on a scarce token from Baudette Air Force Station - it hammered at $403! I left long before it ever got that high! Just makes me realize if I ever get a chance at a McChord or Mildenhall token I better be prepared to spend!

Enough with all that, here's a re-shoot of a token from Orlando Air Force Base, FL.

This is the original:


The new image:


The second one is much truer to how the coin appears in hand and I'm much more pleased with it.

 

Couple that are pushing the boundaries af exonumia but @Jwt708 might like these additions to my odd, half-hearted sideline collection - rabies tags





And a little more traditional, a Studebaker medal from 1952

 

Nice ones @H8_modern !

 

I only have a small collection of foreign counterstamps, with the exception of mostly contemporary Irish political pieces. This is a neat old English merchant stamp c1800. It was actually part of a two coin mini-lot that I got from one of my UK contacts. He digs up hundreds of coins while metal detecting in England and Wales. The other coin is a modern political piece from the Irish Troubles, this one likely from the early 1980s.

The heavily worn George III Penny with the "A. Barnes" counterstamp was dug on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Being that the name Barnes is so common, I doubt that the issuer will ever be identified. Though the stamp has characteristics of an old American issue, it's undoubtedly English, as U.S. stamps are extremely rare on English coins.

The 1973 50p with a political slogan was dug on the beach near the Holyhead terminal of the cross-Irish Sea ferry that connects northwestern Wales to Dublin, Ireland. Over the past year or so, he's found about 20 different coins in the same small area. I have all of them in my collection.

This particular coin reads "H Block // Bobby" and is a reference to Bobby Sands, the IRA...Irish Republican Army"... prison commander during the 1981 Nationalist hunger strike. Sands, along with 9 other paramilitary members died as a result of the strike. Seven were IRA members, and three from INLA,,,Irish National Liberation Army...commanded by Patsy O'Hara. H-Block refers to the section of the prison where the prisoners were held. The prison known as HMP Maze , was located near Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

Bruce

 

Good to hear from you again, Jack. Always like to see some of your tokens.

Funny you mentioned McChord and Mildenhall, as I still keep an eye out for these two when I go to shows. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any. I think you had a third one of special interest too...Osan was it?

I did pick up a set of NCO tokens from Charleston AFB with you in mind several shows ago. They're 5, 25, 50, and 1 dollar pieces. A nice clean set offered by Low Country Coins. I'll be happy to send them to you with my compliments if you want. I don't collect them, so why not?
Cheers,
Bruce

 

@BRandM Oh how exciting! I would love to add them to my collection Bruce!

 

Just PM me your address, Jack, and I'll get them to you.

Bruce

 

Done! You are very kind and generous!

 

Got my new computer today and I'm really in love!!!

@H8_modern I should have responded more substantially last night. Both of those rabies tags could have a home in my collection. I do not have a token from Rickenbacker but here's one from Williams AFB:


Cunningham AZ870b; Williams AFB, Arizona; aluminum, 25mm

 

Here is a picture of me taken in 1970. The silver looking tag on the chain around my neck says "Vaccinated against Rabies - USARV", so I guess it really was a "dog tag". Wish I still had that little item.

 

Here is the last in the medal series I guess you can say he has lots of character

 

Circus, I bet you have a LOT of tokens. Any idea how many?

 

Circus may already know this ? Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and largely self-taught scientist. Best known for development of the microscope, also for work in
microbiology.

 

A couple of items I picked up last night at the Trenton Thunder game. They are celebrating their 25th season and will have a ALL-Star game July 11.

 

In a neighborhood of north of 2,500 , Going to be ordering a third case of safety flips here shortly. That is counting the medals and Franklin mint type non silver bars

I didn't know

 

Wow that's a lot!

My military token collection is about 530 tokens.