Let's see your exonumia!

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You're right longnine. Well played Mr.B!

Bruce

 

I like.....a......lot!

 

Too nice to be a pocket piece dwhiz but it might bring you good luck. Great collectable for a train enthusiast.

Bruce

 

Each coin is 1-3/8" with full color paper insert in a colored plastic holder. Issued by "Old London" snack foods with rim text on back "Collect All 60 Bullwinkle Trading Coins/Dipsy Doodles & Corn Doodles." All main characters from popular cartoon series are shown. Characters include Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha, Rocky, Dudley, Nell, Gidney & Cloyd, and others. Each is numbered

 

Now that's unusual dwhiz. Do you know if they were included as a prize in a package of their snacks? I don't remember seeing them off hand. Cool and quirky collectible.

Bruce

 

Old London" snack foods Dipsy Doodles & Corn Doodles."

 

This just arrived and it's much nicer that the sellers photos it's coin struck and rotated

 

This one is dedicated to dwhiz.

The General was a confederate engine that was stolen during the civil war by civilian army scout James Andrew and some union troops. They took it from Georgia to Tennessee destroying everything along the way that they could while confederates in two other engines chased them. They were finally captured and James Andrew was shot as a spy. The whole episode became a silent Buster Keaton movie called The General and a Walt Disney movie called The Great Locomotive Chase. Later Tennessee and Georigia had a legal battle over which state the engine should be displayed in. The U.S Supreme court ruled in favor of Georgia in 1970. Madison Mint Kidd MAD-9

 

Thank you very nice silver bar

 

Cool longnine009!

 

Thank you.

 

Recent news regarding the minimum wage and a 3 day work week brought to mind a change in the British laws that occurred during the industrial revolution in 19th century. The Ten Hours Act of 1847 limited the workweek for women and children to 10 hours a day and 63 hours a week over 6 days. Sunday was off! A medal (BHM #2306) was issued the following year to commemorate this humanitarian action.



http://industrialchildlabor.weebly.com/the-ten-hour-act-of-1847.html

 

I believe this counts as exonumia (as it has been repurposed) haha. It's a barber half that has been made into one of the inside parts of a pocket watch.

 

I always wanted a clock gear that was cut from a half cent.

 

An interesting use of a Half Dollar SC. Haven't seen this one before. Too bad they cut out the date.

Bruce

 

I think this one was used as a washer of some sort

 

Agreed wish it had but oh well. Dwhiz it probably was! I know people used to use large cents as washer or used them to hold down their tin roofs because they disliked them so much and because a washer cost 2 cents whereas a large cent... Well only one cent!