Let's see your exonumia!

Thanks Jello.

The Korean War doc. was a DVD set I borrowed from the library. I don't remember if it was PBS or someone else.

 

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Cool I may see if our library has it!!!
MICOM was the first guided missile defense until deployment in Vietnam.

 

Well it's a cool looking insignia.

 

I love deco

 

Nice Ford motor token!

 

Here one I still use for a lot of things.

 

It's a little easier understanding some of the difficulties they faced with the terrain and climate after being stationed there. What is also amazing is realizing much of South Korea was mud huts before the war. Entire villages were destroyed that are now large metropolitan areas some 60 years later.

 

Here you go @Jwt708 1st Battalion 27th Infantry C/A plated brass, 5c 21mm 4.3 grams VN1160a same both sides.

 

Nice!

 

Here's a .999 1 oz. Apollo 11 Medal I found yesterday at the show. It was struck in Canada and is numbered on the rim came in a nice Octagon air tight too. I'm guessing the designer was " Cassy Lambardo " as that's the name under the three astronauts and the date of July 20 1969.
As a product of the sixties and the space race this one spoke to me as well as the price @ spot. Not to pleased with the Obv. images of the astronauts however the Rev.moon surface as well as the mother ship and Lem I liked

 

Greeting from Asbury Park NJ. it's 1934 and remember the S.S. Morro Castle.
an encased 1934 Lincoln and it's brother a squished cent.The September Fire

 

Very very very nice pair!!!

BUT, the Cent is not an encased Cent - it is a struck/stamped Cent!

 

I was in my cups a little the other night when I saw your post @longnine009 but I like how the style of the Wolf Hound Club is different from many other styles. Going to have to check Bows' book about that one...

Also I feel like sharing...tonight I won four tokens from Wildwood Air Force Station (AFS) bringing me to five tokens and closing the set. For the listing in Cunningham, he reports a known order in 1968 for 500 of each token. I'm not sure if that means only 500 of each were made or if that's just the only documented order but I wouldn't be surprised if only 500 of each were ever ordered. Wildwood AFS was only part of the Air Force for a short while before it was turned into a Federal prision and only had a base population of about 250. Anyway, once they arrive I'll post all five of them.

Edit: After reviewing my notes, there appears to be one other $1 issue from Wildwood AFS that I will need. The hunt continues!

 

I also have a 5c and 10c for Wolfhounds 2nd Battalion but they are dark brass and I can't get the cellphone to focus for them. I hate that. Most of my Vietnam tokens won't focus with this crappy phone because they're small and toned.

Good luck with your hunt for the Wildwood $1 token.

 

Think I'm going to get serious about photography...

That's awesome you have a 5 & 10 cent also.

 

We had our Boeing coin show last weekend i picked up a lot of cool stuff. here's our elongated cent and wooden nickle, if you want one set pm me. OdedPaz i have a special set for you, just pm me.

I used a 1961 red cent, copper cent looks good. zinc cents don't hold up well...

 

Also from our last show i picked up some awesome woods....
Golden jubilee, Grand Coulee Dam, Spokane, Wash. 1939..

 

Liking those CV-22s there @Eng

 

So I got into Ray Bows' "Vietnam Militarty Lore 1959-1973...Another Way to Remember" and looked this token up. His catalog number is 521IFA-5
o: 1/27 WOLF HOUND E. M. CLUB / (two stars) / 5c
r: same
21mm chrome

He gives the dates of service as Jan 66 - Apr 71 at Cu Chi Base Camp, Hua Nghia Province.

Chu Chi Base Camp was built in 1966 on the site of a former peanut plantation known by the Vietnamese as Dong Zu Base meaning paratrooper's field. Cu Chi was surrounded by desnse forest laces with a labyrinth of enemy tunnels. The base was 25 miles northwest of Saigon and south of the Iron Triangle. To the north of the base was the Fil Hol Plantation, a former rrubber plantatino from which the Viet Cong would launch rocket attacks agains tthe base. Further northwest was tthe Hobo Woods a major stronghold of the Viet cong. The area around Cu Chi was the scene of some of the most destructive operations of the war. The interior of Cu Chi was devoid of vegitation and the earth was a fine talcum powder-like substance. Cu Chi was described as "one of the few places on earth that one could stand 'rear-deep' (but not the word rear) in mud and get dust in his eyes."