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Picked this one up off the web the other day...Interesting History with this one I thought. http://www.greatseal.com/peace/diplomaticmedal.html

 

Picked up a nice pop-out

 

that is an amazing original piece, probably for a mother memorializing her child. At that time infant death from infections was extremely high. I would like to believe it was for a living child, but history makes me think otherwise. These artifacts need to be preserved for future generations.

 

Silver dollar size, pewter, pocket piece

 

Recent acquired from an auction lot of tax/transportation tokens.

 

I like that token a lot, Idhair. Do you know when it was approximately issued. Looks to be 1850s or earlier, but just a guess. Thanks for posting it.

Bruce

 

NUTS was reported because it was not profane. It is much more likely that a paratrooper would have said BALLS. Which would have had the same meaning.

 

I cruise now and then and nowadays cruise ships don't use $1 gambling tokens, as it's done electronically, occasionally you'll see .25 tokens in a "penny falls" machine, but as often they use quarters. I was given three free spins on a slot machine as part of my package, and on one ship was given three of these. There was an X on each side I guess so I wouldn't try to redeem them. I used two, won nothing and happily kept the third.

 

Another auction acquired set, 40mm, 62mm, 76mm, bronze and silver.

 

same both sides

 

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East Detriot Coin Club 40mm, 22grams, M/A, antiqued bronze
It's not exactly in great condition but I seldom see Detroit Coin Club medals so I bought it.