Let's see your exonumia!

Here's a few of my Tokens!

 

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It would be great if CoinTalk started a new forum specifically for Exonumia as there's quite a few of us Token collectors now! Here's a couple more of mine!

 

Here's more from my collection, some are rare and others not so much! The first one is a Hart's California Gold Token, fully tested at 11k! The pinback is a German Thaler, 1861, unfortunately the date is covered by the pinback!

 

Here's more of them, I think the second Token down is a Kentucky Derby Token but it's just a guess, anyone know please educate me! The Ulysses S. Grant is a strange one as it shows his initials as Gen. F. D. Grant, anyone know why?

 

Here's the last of them, first one is a Robert Lovett Token and the second one is a Kettle Token! The fourth one down looks homemade or made differently, it's a nice one in hand, just looks old and different!

 

Those are sharp. Love the indian

 

Like the hat too

 

Liking abe

 

. Wow. That’s a lot of different types. Looks like fun

 

Here are three Civil War Store tokens that just arrived in my mailbox. All of them have a provenance to the Dave Bowers reference collection, although that is not why I purchased them. I purchased the first one because I am working on a beehive topical collection. The second one because I liked the spelling of Cigars as Segars and the third because I thought it was an example of 19th century snark.

 

Been a while since I made a coin purchase, or involved in the hobby. Here's my latest score:

 

Hey Jack great to hear from You!

 

Star Grocery Company-- brass, M/A, 21mm, 3.7 grams, Ninety Six South Carolina.

The town of Ninety Six began as a trading post on a road that was 96 miles from the Keowee Indian village. Eventually it would have 12 roads going into it which made it a strategic point during the Revolutionary War. And so the British built the now famous Star Fort there.

In May and June of 1781 Patriot General Nathanael Greene put a seige on the Fort. He built a tower for snipers to shoot down from and he had people digging a tunnel under it to set off explosives.

But then he got word that the British were sending troops up from Charleston to break the seige so he decided to try an all out attack on the Fort. He wasn't able pull it off so he departed Ninety Six with the British 30 miles away.

As for the Star Grocery Store, it was built in 1921 and was the company store for the Ninety Six Cotton Mills.

Sources: Numismatics of South Carolina Merchant Trade Tokens--Tony Chibbaro.
And the Interwebbie.

 

This was fun

 

Thanks Bill! Glad to see there are still some familiar "faces" around!

 

For sure I got bit by the bug again after some hobby hiatus. I did score a couple more tokens, these are the seller's photos. I'm on vacation right now so I don't have my references handy but I'm very excited about the McCook transit token and if any of you fine numismatists can provide any info from Atwood, I would be very grateful.


First up is a military token from Taegu Air Base, Korea. Looks like Taegu ceased operations in 1989.


McCook Army Airfield was activated as a training base in Nebraska in 1943 for heavy bomber training. In December 0f 1945 the last unit was deactivated and so was the installation.


My internet searches put this token with Rammstein AB, Germany even though it has no obvious markings placing it there. I'm not sure what SB-WASH means. I purchased it because it was cheap and something I haven't seen before.

 

Coin Collecting is the Hotel California. "...you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave..." Eagles

Happy vacation.

 

Here's a Ben Franklin Medal I got in yesterdays mail, as nice in hand as in the pics! Size is 45.2mm and 36.8 grams, nice chunk of bronze, minted in France in 1880-1898!

 

Very impressive, Z. Beautiful all around medal.

Bruce