U.S Token and Medal Tuesday! Post yours too....

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This token serves two purposes for me. It is part of my Civil War Token collection
and it has a home in my topical beehive collection.
Fuld-460V-1a, MS-65 BN, ex. Dave Bowers reference collection, R-6.

 

Here is P.T. Barnum's museum which was in New York City. Confederate spies or terrorists tried to set it on fire during the Civil War. They did not succeed, but the place did burn down after the war.



Barnum had these tokens struck in England. It is silver plated over white metal.

Barnum was always the prankster. A sign in the museum invited people to "see the egress." People were surprised when they went out the door and found themselves in the street. An "gress" is an exit.

Here is 19th century drawing of the building.



And here is a colorized picture of it when it burned.

 

Don't think I've ever posted this one before.

Z

 

Some nice tokens/medal being posted. Here is another tragedy token.
This happened the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire

 

Even non-coin people seem to think the "SPOOT"
civil war token is kinda cool.

 

I think it is interesting to be able to compare the two.
Like the find the differences game.

 

Interesting . . . .

Z

 

Indeed, the Peshtigo fire was overshadowed by the Chicago fire. At the same time, October 8th, there were fires burning on the east coast of Wisconsin, up the Door Peninsula, on both coasts of Michigan and around the city of Lansing. There had been a long term drought leading to extremely dry conditions and when a low pressure system came through with very high winds many long smoldering fires blew up into major conflagrations. The fire hit Peshtigo at night and most people were asleep. The combined death toll from all the fires in Wisconsin and Michigan was estimated to be 1800. Even today there is no firm estimate of the death toll as establishing a death toll was difficult because many victims were turned to ash and blew away on the winds. When I taught my class about Natural Disasters I spent a day covering Peshtigo and all the other WI and MI fires of October 7-8, 1871.

I think of Peshtigo when ever there is a major US wildfire like Maui or the Paradise fire in CA, and the recent fires in Texas let alone the rest of the world.

 

How about a couple of scare octagons (on a Monday)? Bronze / Silver - antiqued.

Z

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Nice items posted here. Here is a medal

 

Keeping both Tuesday threads alive.

Z

 

25.2mm, 5.57g

 

Puyallup Washington Raspberry Picker Token

 

Here's a CoinStar find. It's a token that I might actually use.

Z

 

And here's one I hope never to be in the position to use . . . .

Z

 

Wow. Great coin