Let's see your exonumia!

Bought 31 tokens at the coin club meeting last night for a very good price. The pictures are not very good.

The aluminum tokens:








The brass tokens. The Apollo 13 token at the bottom left is anodized aluminum not brass.





Other composition tokens. The Air Force Association token is anodized aluminum.

 

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A nice assortment Ed. I can't read what's on all of them but I like the token and medal collectors jamboree the best. Looks like you hit the jackpot. Congratulations!

Bruce

 

The list of the tokens, not necessarily in the order pictured. The guy I bought these from brought three single row 2x2 boxes of tokens for me to go through to see if there was anything in them I could take to the flea market. I bought all of the good for tokens he had. The rest are the ones I found most interesting.

San Francisco Naval Shipyard – Navy Day 1947, aluminum, 38mm

Apollo Twelve – Man's Second Moon Exploration November 19, 1969, aluminum, 38mm

Apollo 13 Triumph Over Failure, April 11, 1970, gold anodized aluminum, 38mm

Dr. Pepper Fight For First – Faster in ’55, aluminum, 33mm

National Token, Medal And Exonumia Collectors Jamboree March 16-19, 1973 San Jose, Ca. good for $1.00 in trade at any bourse table, brass, 38mm

Token, Medal and Exonumia Collectors Jamboree West San Jose, Cal. April 4-6, 1975, One is dated 1795 (Error?) and one is dated 1975, tokens, aluminum, 38mm

J. A. Folger & Co. SF, Cal. good for 20 cents on a pound of Folger’s coffee. Aluminum, 35mm

Automotive City SF, Cal. Good for one gallon of regular or ethyl gasoline with every purchase of five gallons or more, aluminum, 32mm

Riposo Club SF, Cal. good for 50 cents in trade, aluminum, 32mm

Riposo Club SF, Cal. good for 25 cents in trade, aluminum, 28mm

Lucky Tiger Mfg. Co. Kansas City, MO 25 cents on the purchase of White Fox Cream or Ointment, aluminum, 32mm

Excelsior Shoe Co. Portsmouth O. The Original “By Scouts” Shoe for Boys July 1910 good luck token, brass, 32mm

Second Excelsior Shoe Co. as above but undated

Chevrolet Trucks Pike’s Peak Champions Record Non Stop Pike’s Peak Climb 26 minutes 12 seconds Sept. 6-7, 1935, brass32mm

Columbia Smart Apparel – Home Wares Golden Jubilee 1888-1938 SF, Cal. Good for $1.00 on your first purchase, brass, 32mm (2)

Original Harlem Globetrotters good luck token, brass, 32mm

Hyvis Motor Oils token, one brass and one copper, both 32mm

Young’s Speedy Shoes For Men good luck token, brass, 32mm

Cars and Tracks, Inc. SF, Cal. good for 50 cents in trade, brass, 35mm

Cars and Tracks, Inc. Sf, Cal. Good for $1.00 in trade, brass, 39mm

William R. Hall Coins SF, Cal. Good for 25 cents in trade, brass, 32mm

Boy Scouts 3rd National Jamboree Irvine Ranch, Cal. July 1953, brass, 36mm

Oldsmobile Futuramic “88” Driving is Believing token, brass, 35mm

Fort Bliss N. C. O. Open Mess good for 5 cents in trade, brass, 22mm

Good Saint Christopher good luck token. The silver in this token was taken from the San Christobal Mine in Mexico named for the good St. Christopher, lead, 37mm

The McLean House at Appomattox Court House, VA end of the Civil War token, nickel, 33mm

The Marquardt Corp. Air Force Association San Francisco 1960 token, anodized aluminum, 38mm

Bethlehem Pacific South San Francisco Plant one year without a disabling injury token April 20, 1949 to April 20, 1950, steel, 34mm

 

i have a bag of like 300 of these... want some? lol

 

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No thanks. Take them to the scrap metal recycling center that's where you will get the most money for them.

 

There are actually ones selling on ebay for $9 each suprisingly

 

Two trade tokens I dug out of my "pile" the other day. Don't know much about them other than what's on the token itself. The Wolfe piece is from South Whitley, IN. It's 16mm and is listed on Tokencatalog.com as TC-133228. They also issued a 10 cent token. I couldn't find anything else about the Young's card.

Bruce

 

Fifteen cents is an interesting denomination. Do you know what kind of business it was?

 

No, I only found out what town they were from. I might look around some more now that you mentioned it. Maybe I can find Wolfe on Ancestry. I'll be sure to post anything I find.

Bruce

 

Thanks Bruce.

 

You got me motivated to look around for Wolfe longnine and I think I found him. South Whitley is in Cleveland Township, Whitley Co., IN There were a lot of the Wolf / Wolfe family who lived in the area but the only two I found with the initials "R.L." were Russell L. Wolfe and his son Russell L. Jr. Russell Sr. lived from 1897 until 1958 and is buried in the South Whitley Cemetery. Young Russell was born in 1921 and died in 1985. I think his mother's name was Minerva, but I'm not sure about that.

Apparently, they ... either the father or son or both ... ran a garage at 201 S. Main St. called, not surprisingly, Wolfe's Garage. I couldn't find what years they were in business, but they were out of business before 1962. I'm thinking 1940s / 1950s, maybe earlier. I found a mention of a new business moving into the former site of Wolfe's Garage at the above address in 1962. The fact that Russell Sr. died in 1958 and the garage closed sometime before 1962 indicates to me that he operated that business. I couldn't find any other possible issuers so I think he's our man.

Bruce

 

Superb info Bruce! Thank you. And fifteen cents sounds about right for a gallon of gas in late 50's early 60's.

 

That's what I was thinking too. In those days 15 cents would get you some gas like you say or something else he carried.

Bruce

 

Or a quart of Wolf's Head motor oil. Then he'd be boosting his own business name in addition to an extra sale.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=wolf...act=rc&page=1&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=0CFkQrQMwCg

 

Nichols & Remley Glenrock Wyo. Good for 5c in trade. Brass, M/A, 3.9grms, 23mm. Note the "C" for cents is behind a rather decorative 5 with a top hat cane ( I guess) going through it.

 

J.H. Barber Glenrock Wyo. Good for 25 cents in trade. Brass, M/A, 4.9 grms, 26mm. I'll post a follow up story for these in short while.

 

The tokens were given to me by Gene Daniels, aka DG Daniels and Old Dan on the former CoinWorld board. Gene lived in Glenrock his entire life and was a submariner in the pacific during WWll-a story all by itself. Anyway Gene said Nickols & Remley was a pool hall and J.H. Barber was a judge who was a partner in the pool hall. It was under the floor boards of the court house that the tokens were found. Which might explain why they were harshly cleaned. RIP Gene.

 

Nice tokens and an interesting story behind them longnine. I do like that "5" on the Nichols token...a bit unusual.

Bruce

 

Just received George V "Royal society of arts manufactures and commerce medal". It comes with a huge and well preserved medal box. The medal awarded to Alma Beese 1930 (these are inscriptions on the edge).

 

It held up pretty well.