Let's see your exonumia!

Even though this counterstamp is on an 1861 English Penny it's actually a modern issue c 1982 / 1991. The sharpness and style of the stamp is obviously modern and not from the 19th century. It represents a trademark of the Boston jeweler and silverware house of Shreve, Crump & Low. The company is actually very old and can trace its roots back to 1796 and Boston silversmith John McFarlane, a neighbor of Paul Revere. While the company incorporated back in 1888, this trademark wasn't registered with the Patent office until 1982. For some unknown reason the mark was cancelled in 1991 and not used after then, thus the issue date of 1982 / 1991. A nice example of a modern stamp on an old coin.

Bruce

 

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Cool info and counterstamp Bruce. Gotta love stuff with an unusual story. Thankyou!

 

A somewhat rare set of old French medals -- one silver, one bronze :

 

I love this thread. Great stuff everyone.

 

Nice high relief medals Working Man. Thanks for showing them.

Bruce

 

I'm awaiting this medal engraved by William Wyon for the Manchester School of Design in 1848. It's 51mm glazed in frosted silver and was awarded to Henry Whaite in 1851.

 

Man that's a beautiful finish to the medal yarm. I never heard of frosted silver, but it sure is a nice look. Great pickup!

Bruce

 

Is it silver glazed with porcelain? It's beautiful, whatever the process was.

 

I just picked up this American Hotel counterstamp from eBay the other day. It's listed in Brunk as A-258 with about 30 examples known. All are on Shield Nickels with a single exception on an Indian Head Cent. There is one or two sentences in Brunk describing the history of the hotel but I decided to do a quick check to try to flesh-out the info a bit. It stated that the hotel was known as the Wales Hotel at one time but I found that that description fit with another hotel named the American in Detroit in the 1840s. This was long before the hotel with the same name in Winona, MN. Whoever did the original research mistook the Detroit location for the Winona hotel. It's understandable, as I came across the source they probably quoted in the original attribution and it is a bit confusing. In any case, I couldn't find anything of interest on this one so will have to continue looking. This is a stamp I've been looking for for some time so I'm happy to add it to my collection. Thanks for looking.

Bruce

 

"Is it silver glazed with porcelain? It's beautiful, whatever the process was."

The silver has a very fine texture and is like a matte rather than brilliant finish. In my experience these pieces are very prone to dark ugly toning unless they were glazed (put under glass) at issue as this medal was.

 

I recently shared this one in a Canadian thread (World Coins forum), but I like it too much not to share here.

This is one of those machine "rolled coins", but this was done in 1911, and the victim coin of the rolling was a Canadian Edward VII large cent. The coin must have been AU (or better) at the time. The old obverse was remarkably preserved.

 

That's a nicely done elongate SPP with plenty of detail. The modern ones often have a cheap and fuzzy look to them. The fact that there's still a lot of detail remaining on the obverse is nice too. I think collectors like to see the coin's detail, especially the date if possible.

Bruce

 

I have posted this one in the past, but with its copper brother I thought a repost might be enjoyed!

 

Look twins...almost! Great pieces guys.

Bruce

 

Oh cool!!! I never knew there were some in silver. What denomination would the coin have been?? 25-cent??

 

It is a silver King George something or other, I am a token, EC, medal collector I have no idea what it was or is.

 

These are for you longnine. I don't collect military tokens but someone gave them to me about ten years ago. I assume this is the Ft. Lewis in Washington state. Not in the best of shape but still readable. You guys have any history on them?

Bruce

 

It's a back to the beginning thing. It began as Camp Lewis with Tacoma Field (Army Air Corp) added later. Tacoma Field was then renamed McChord Airfield. When the Army Air Corp became the U.S Air Force, they seperated from Fort Lewis. But then in 2010 they were merge back together as Joint Base Lewis-McChord or JBLM. Kind a like the baby bells leaving Ma Bell and Ma merges again with Bellsouth. JBLM is a pretty huge operation.

 

Forgot, the 5c piece is Cunningham WA340a and the 25c is WA340b. They both list in Cunningham for $5. JWT708, I believe, collects AF tokens. He might have more info about it he if visits the thread.

 

Thanks for the info on Ft. Lewis longnine. I meant to ask if these were in the reference books when I posted them, but now I don't have to. Thanks again.

Bruce