Let's see your exonumia!

Here is an encased cent that Earl Schill passed out with his address...

 

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I'm not a 3rd Reich collector but this was priced right and looks nice - Sudetenland medal with ribbon for $10

 

Another little adition to my growing modern store card hoard.

 

Cool addition! Once you get a few you should make a virtual tray of them! I like these tokens for coin dealers. It's like when Kramer from Seinfeld discovered where 1st Street crosses 1st Street and called it the nexus of the universe.

 

It gives me something to keep my eye out for and a little something to do.
Could be worth a FORTUNE someday!

 

Oh ya! Your kids are going to be pumped once you die and they cash them all in!

My son is banking on my spotted, raw, ASEs and my collection of Air Force trade tokens. He'll have money to burn!

If you were serious...I would like to apologize.

 

...You don't think they will be worth big bucks someday?

I'm kidding! Just like everything else, I pick up one or two and the next thing I know I want one of every type I can find.
Sigh.

 

Haha! Well, a great appeal to me and my exonumia collection is I can indulge myself with something I find interesting without concern for breaking the bank and forgeries. Kind of refreshing really.

 

Really we all like too much as one would say.it's one the best post to see anything that's great...

 

The address for any that may be interested no longer exists! it is an open space, that is part of the YMCA bldg complex.1434 Farmer Detroit Mi

 

I bought these in Singapore. These are sold by various vendors in Chinatown, souvenir stands and similar. Fairly large variety of silver dollar size, and some quarter size. I'll post a few more choice ones. Cost is between S$2 and 8, so US between $1.30 and $5.50. Although these are obvious fantasy dates, some are real dates (I bought a "1884 Trade dollar", as well as a "1873-CC"). There is no intent to deceive that I can see. The purpose of having so many different dates escapes me. Only one, a 1906 Statue of Liberty dollar (not a mistype, the 1986 type) even had the word copy on it, and then only on one side. Chinese types were the most common, US, British Commonwealth, Swiss shooting talers, etc. Of course we've been seeing these for years, but this was the most open and cheap I've ever seen. Usually someone is trying to convince you they are real. I bet they cane you for that in Singapore.

You'll notice the 1844-CC is "With motto". Most farsighted of Mr. Gobrecht. Not to say President Washington's thoughtfulness in setting up a branch mint in Carson City in the days of Adam Eckfeldt.

 

I also bought some more standard items. All of these were purchased in Singapore. I wandered the grungy shopping centers of Chinatown looking for coin dealers (and other interesting stuff). The bank cash coin was one I got that way. That is a Singapore bank that was started by locals after WWII, did well and eventually merged with one of the biggies I think in 2001. The medal was from a shop on one of the tourist streets in Chinatown. Uniquely, the shop holder had several 3 inch medals, I bought this and another for S$10 each (the other shows a Chinese Communist general). The Nixon item was from a third dealer, that I discovered in the basement of Lucky Plaza on Orchard Road, where I had been told there were coin dealers (I found one). I was very glad to spend time inside once I had seen the sights I wanted to see as the air quality in Singapore is pretty awful right now because of the fires in Indonesia.

 

Fun stuff here. A belt of 22 fake British Trade dollars. I bought this for about US $70 at the Sabah Museum in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia (formerly British North Borneo). They apparently do have numismatic items on display, per Wikipedia, but I didn't know that at the time and rushed through as time was short before I had to be back on the ship. Definite language barrier at the gift shop, I said "I know they're fake" and the clerk said "Hard to find real". I bet. They're all dated 1930.

 

An interesting assortment of exonumia, Wehwalt. Fake or counterfeit coins can be fun to collect. I have a few counterfeit Seated Liberty Quarters but nothing more. Thanks for showing all your new pickups.

Bruce

 

Thx. Not all ... the quarter size ones are all "from" Southeast Asia. I will put up a few more as time permits.

 

We stopped at Saipan, along the way. These were the only two items from there. Saipan is in the US, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The one on the left was from the visitor center of the War in the Pacific National Historic Park on Saipan It's in a case, struck by the Honolulu Mint. They had it in silver too, as well as one for Guam (which also has a branch of the park) but I wasn't that thrilled with it but wanted to buy something for Saipan, which is a bit off the beaten track. The golf thingie is from a golf course my tour stopped at on the south end of Saipan mostly to show us the view (and to let people use the john). I didn't find anything in Guam but don't regret not buying the Guam anniversary medal, which is not the most exotic thing I've ever seen. The day concluded with the tour guide taking some of us who felt souvenir-deprived to a place called I love (that is, a heart) Saipan. Filled with junky souvenirs and so forth aimed at the Japanese market (the main source of visitors).


Next we have the last item purchased on this trip, during my two-hour layover at Narita Airport outside Tokyo, having just concluded a 7 hour flight and about to leave on a 12 hour one. It was in a gift shop, advertised as "Samurai Money". 1200 Yen. They also had a set of two "gold" and three little silver bit for 4000 Yen but I figured this would do. The other piece I got in Singapore and it is from a hotel in central Malaysia, somewhat north of Singapore
. I don't know why they needed their own money rather than use Malaysia's. It is cupronickel though I know it appears aluminum-like

 

I have the $1 token so I had to get this when I saw it.

 

Here is some of the tokens that I picked up at the Local Coin shop this week end.
The first is an adult peep show token

The obverse has been photo shopped for posting in a general forum.

the second one is the generic heads you win/tails you loose. Again I have photo shopped parts out

 

Her face is scary!

 

well I don't think they were concentrating on that attribute of the womanly form! But yes this die is one of the more scary ones that are out there.