Let's see your exonumia!

Recent pickup, imaged it while I was prepping some others for eBay - this will eventually head to Newport Beach for a plastic house and a photo shoot with Phil Arnold, but in the meantime... I bought and broke this out of an SEGS MS64 holder - toned with blues and greens on both sides, but most attractively on the Washington side. I now have Copper (Ex: Virgil Brand), the Silver (above), and the Gilt (yet to be imaged) examples of this token.

I may have posted, but this token was neat because the US Mint set up a press at the Great Central Fair and stamped these tokens more or less on demand for visitors. The copper examples are on US cent planchets. Kinda cool in the Civil War token world, since most were considered at best uncouth and at worst illegal to circulate. There are minor die varieties in the dozens, but the three compositions I have listed above are the "Big Three."

 

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An older presidents type token with the gilt worn off

 

Here are some of the award medals designed by Christian Gobrecht and struck by the United States Mint...

 

How about a few Mardi Gras Dubloons

 

Civil War era token to add to our Rhode Island collection.

 

Mobile oil or Shell set?

 

Awesome! Well done on getting all three.

 

That's quite a collection. Wow!

 

They are from the Franklin mints Shell oil Mr presidents game bronze

 

This would be a "token" methinks...

 

Got this one at the Hayden sale over the weekend - Ohio token, railroad theme. Loved it, and got it for my max bid.


Also got this one. One of 10 in private hands, Mexican token from the Ford Collection.

 

I never win any of Hayden's auctions. It's not often he has something that is in my areas of interest but when he does I can be sure I won't get it! Congratulations on your victories!

 

It has been many years, but Slots-A-Fun used to have two silver strike games that I loved to play. They paid out these "Nevada Wildlife" silver strikes.



Chris

 

He had a fairly rare John Grenther token from Columbus. I have one, but of a more common die set. I was never a contender. My budget for 2016 and probably most of 2017 is shot from picking up a couple of important sutlers the last three months.

 

A few of my transport tokens

 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle grandstand racing pass in copper.