Suggestions for Halloween-esque coins?

This thread is more than a year old. But now I finally have the first coin of my Halloween coin collection!

 

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The current issue of The Numismatist has an article on Vlad the Impaler, and some samples of his coins.

 

I can get all the coins I want with Halloween images. The town I grew up in used to produce valueless coins every Halloween to toss out at the local parade. I simply have to go back home around the month of October to my hometown, the Halloween capital of the world. Any guesses where that might be?

 

Hmm either Hell, MI, or Salem, MA

 

Salem, MA?

 

Nope and Nope!

 

<slaps head> oh.. could it be.....Anoka, Minnesota?

thanks..google, and that is a nice pile of self aggrandizement if I do say so myself .. at least they didn't pick cheese

 

You're right. Why they think they should be the Halloween capital of the world has always been beyond my comprehension. I guess nobody else wanted it. Good old Anoka. Garrison Keillor hails from Anoka and he never seems to mention the Halloween connection.

BTW Was just behind the cheese curtain recently and everything was so...so yellow.

 

Transnistria issued a bimetallic coin with a bat on it. You can see it or buy it at www.joelscoins.com/zoo.htm

Clinker

 

OOOOOOOHHH! Now, here's a scary picture. Looks like she got the wits scared out of her. Of course, if you'd like to put this in my Trick-or-Treat bag, I'd gladly accept. Or as many Susan B. Anthony Dollars as you would like to give...