Let's see your exonumia!

This is the exonumia thread! Exonumia is a pretty broad category...and why I think this thread has persisted for so long. Any one piece of exonumia can have a very small interest and little discussion but when it's all tossed together...I guess it works!

Here are a few tokens:

Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; Cunningham Vol 1, p. 219, ND50a, bronze, 22mm


Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; Cunningham Vol 1, p. 219, ND50b, bronze, 26mm


Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; Cunningham Vol 1, p. 219, ND50c, bronze, 29mm


Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; Cunningham Vol 1, p. 219, ND50d, bronze, 35mm

These four tokens were purchased as a group lot from Lost Dutchman Rare Coins back in 2013 and ignited my passion for collecting these. My collection spans over 600 tokens!

 

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Your collection of military tokens is just awesome. I have enjoyed seeing them.

 

Old RI VFW medal

 

Thank you!!!!

I'll keep them coming - I have some exciting new tokens on the way I'm eager to share. Hopefully this weekend I'll snap some photos of them and my photography set up.

 

Thats Great. I am curious if much information can be found concerning the
Manufacturer's of this kind of tokens.

 

Actually yes and there are some records of how many tokens were ordered and when. I will include some examples later.

 

This is the only one I have. Same both sides but rotated ~90°.

 

Here's your token, from Paul Cunningham's "Military Tokens of the United States: Volume 2 (Overseas Issues)" page 73, IT50a, brass, 21mm.

Returning to the earlier topic of knowing who and how many were made for this particular issue, this token was made and delivered by the Meyer and Wenthe Company in March of 1970 and made 3,000. Not all tokens in Cunningham have this information, just lucky yours did. A man by the name of Duane Feisel examined years of Meyer and Wenthe records to get this information.

Here are my two from Italy:


IT60a, brass, 21mm. I wanted this token because I thought the reverse was cool. There is also a 50 and 150 denomination.


IT80b, brass, 21mm

 

Thank you for the information. I will label accordingly.

 

Something to keep in mind - especially if you get interested in military items - it's been my experience on eBay that sellers try to tie items to World War II. I don't know if it's intentional to get attention or if it's an error.

 

another from the lordmarcovan's swap

 

Found these tucked away in a drawer this morning.

 

Today's find.

 

I had a summer job in Washington DC in 1970 and attended this coin show one day.


Washington D.C. Coin Show 1970 Wooden Nickel

Obverse:
Dwight Eisenhower facing left
SOUVENIR / EISENHOWER DOLLAR

Reverse:
SIXTH ANNUAL M.W.N.A. CONVENTION (Metropolitan Washington Numismatic Association)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SHERATON PARK HOTEL
JULY 24-26, 1970

Wood, 51 mm, 5.67 gm

 

I had a few tokens remaining to image which will you can see below. First up, a few shots of my area...please excuse the mess! I was working on some Warhammer miniatures and was waiting for one to dry. Also excuse the blurry photos.



This holder is formed from a large CD-ROM case. It's the kind of thing you used to be able to get from Walmart ten years ago where there would be like 200 blank CDs. Around it is black cardstock formed into a tube shape. It is sitting on a chair and below my coin rig are Cunningham's volumes because they're black.



From a little further away you can see the chair, two clip on lights with white paper taped over them, the coin rig, and the tripod I mount my camera on. Also, you can see the Warhammer figure I was working. I use this set up for all my photography. It's cheap and made from things found around the house. If I were to change anything it would probably be the bulbs. Sometimes I think they put out too much blue. Sometimes I like to use indirect sunlight, it just depends.

Here are the photos I took right after that shot:

GU90a, Andersen AB, brass, 26mm. I've been trying to snatch a token from Andersen for years, but I have always lost on auctions. Also, I love irregularly shaped tokens.


KR2320a, Seoul, plated brass, 21mm


KR2320b, Seoul, plated brass, 18mm


KR2320c, Seoul, 24mm


KR2900c, Taegu, aluminum, 34mm. This denomination is unlisted in Cunningham and also for these tokens he does not record the value twice.


MV130b, brass, 24mm. Cunningham lists this token with the Mavericks but notes that they've been attributed to Subic Bay. While this token is not from the Air Force, I couldn't resist an honestly worn beer token!


NM210e, Holloman AFB, nickel, 35mm. I love the nickel tokens also. They have a nice heft and not many in my collection are made of this material.

Hope you enjoyed the tokens and can see with just a little effort pleasing coin photos are possible. Also, I use Paint to combine, crop, and resize my photos. See forum member Doug Smith's website for some very nice tutorials and articles. They're about ancient coins but the methods can be applied for moderns.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/photo.html
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html