Let's see your exonumia!

It arrived today

 

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My favorite medal. It's beautiful.

 

Every now and then I pick up a rare or unusual token, well it may even be unattractive to some but not to me, that's why I added it to my collection! This one was made by a jeweler from Ohio who began business in 1870, may have used the old wax casting process, idk. Anyways just thought I'd share the sellers pics, looks like a baby but it could be an alien as well. Is it something else?? I don't think it was made with a screw press, pic below. Maybe it was made with the old fashioned wax casting process, looks to be made of pewter. Below is a link about the jeweler and his family, quite a story!

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/04/04/smallb1.html

 

I just thought this first token was interesting





This next one was issued by a great dealer who passed this last year, Jerry Schmidt who was an AF vet, spoke and read Mandarin and was an all around impressive guy. Sorry for the crappy pics

 

A member who hasn’t been seen since 2015 posted one of these
Sorry I can’t help more
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unique-columbus-oh-dl-auld-token-any-help.51576/

 

Great, appreciated, I guess the design caught his eye as well!

 

Here are a few tokens that I have collected!

 

I do believe this will make me a rich man, right?

 

If you don't know it, those irradiated dimes were done & given out at the 1964 NY World's Fair

 

https://forums.collectors.com/discu...-they-and-are-they-collectible-photos-updated
may be more than you want to know!

 

Tell me, from whom else are you gonna see a token with Friar Tuck, Pinocchio, Batman, Darth Vader, a young Harry Potter, and Ariel the Little Mermaid featured on it?

Hard to get good photos of it with it's proof like fields . . . . .

Z

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Enjoy/appreciate all the originals (most of these), but gotta be a party-pooper on altering, defacing, et al, for various "artwork" including any/all colorization, painting, etc. of any official U.S. government-made/minted or printed coins/currency.

 

Think this would be exonumia...it's not a legal tender or face value coin...maybe a medal or...? Anyway, a silver MS beauty that my photos can't come close to capturing in terms of luster and tones...a 1969 Mexican plata-pura commemorative of the 1519 founding (450th anniv) of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz...50.5g and 45mm, with lettered edge (in Spanish or I'd translate). No mintage numbers but was/is hard to find...don't know if rare (whatever "rare" constitutes).

 

I was seeing all those neat baroque coins / medals in another thread, so I went with it and got my own budget example - a holed 1690 Augsburg, German State, Holy Roman Empire silver coronation jetton. It may not be much, and it's not as beautiful by any means as so many of the other wonderful examples, but I am quite pleased with myself. If this isn't exonumia, I apologize, I think it is though. I also have a spaceship I just bought from Landis, so I'll post that too to be safe.

 

That's Evelyn Nesbit for anyone wondering who is depicted.

 

Keysville Lumber Co. Hillsborough County (Tampa/St. Petersburg area), aluminum, 1.9 grams, 28mm, M/A, C.R. Clark K1-50

Keysville was named after U.S. Postmaster General David Key.

Keysville Lumber was founded on the south bank of the Alafia river sometime in the 1870's by Daniel Mcqueen Blue who apparently moved to Florida from Georgia where he was born. A large steam engine powered his lumber mill, as well as a grist mill and two cotton gins.

He also served as a sergeant in the Confederacy-- Company C, 8th Florida Infantry Regiment.

 

Just picked up this nice Louisiana Purchase Exposition admission token. Did they really get these just for walking through the doors?

 

I got the matching large bronze medal (56mm) issued to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, marking her 60th year on the throne, to go with the sterling silver one I have, and now I have an original red box, though it's a bit rough. Here are pics with a regular quarter and ATB hockey puck for size comparison. I think these are neat! They have 1837 and young Victoria on one side, and then the adult queen with 1897 on the other size. They also issued approximately 70 of these in solid gold to members of the royal family, I doubt I shall ever see one of those, outside of a museum.

 

I don't know what this is or where I got it from: