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Really strange cu pro-nickle art bars, limited edition and serial numbers.

 

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Another one and this is the same die that the silver art bars were minted

 

Not quite sure if this fits. It was dug while metal detecting. Had to soak it in olive oil and distilled water for a couple weeks just to see what is was.

 

One of my Christmas presents.

 

Continuing in the Watergate theme, all are cupro-nickle

 

Cu pro-nickle version

fine silver version I got months ago

 

It fits!

 

Hi friends, I got a couple of fobs the other day, fobs aren't really what I collect, I mostly collect tokens but I couldn't pass these up. Hopefully they'll fit in with my small transportation collection.

 

The last token up there is a Dengremont, he was a violin prodigy from Brazil. I think I posted the token before. Here's some others, the Dengremont tokens usually are very worn out because they come from the late 1800's. Check out the link, when you get time.

http://histclo.com/act/music/pro/ind/d/pro-dengre.html

 

Here's a couple more. Anyone remember Burgie? Now that's an old beer! I couldn't find an American token so I bought a Mexican one. lol

 

Here's a couple more, and a couple later.

 

cu pro-nickle
And the final one of that series that I have, I have no idea what it is supposed to represent!

 

I would think a motivational piece for sales people. That was the end of the Nam and gas shortages. I did find a CRP automotive, I wonder.

 

I figured that the J.M on the brief case was Mitchell the attorney general. I will admit that when Watergate happened or even afterward historically I didn't pay any attention to it I guess the lettering above the door and exit sign might have a more important meaning to somebody that is a political junkie.
When listening to politicians, I always remember something a wiseman told me "God had a plan when he had lawyer, lips, and lying all start with the letter L! Since most are politicians are lawyers if their lips are moving they are lying!

 

CRP= Committee to Reelect the President.

The Dems changed to CREEP

 

Thanks somebody on another forum posted this "CRP - Commitee for Re-election of the President. Arm of RNP that funded Watergate burglars and other nasty tricks."
So as Paul Harvey use to say now you know the rest of the story!

 

First numismatic item that I have ever seen that commemorates the Nixon Watergate scandal of the 1970's.

Thanks for posting it.

And now this little item from Paris:



Mengin of Paris 1860's Token

Obverse: Profile of Mengin in Roman helmet / HOMAGE A L'INVENTEUR / PARIS

Reverse: CRAYON MENGIN / 20 Cs LE CRAYON / Fg St MARTIN 25 (Rue de Faubourg St. Martin)

Brass, 24mm, 3.43gm

Mengin is also spelled Mangin in some texts:

Mentions of Mangin, the Pencil-Seller:

Joe Vitale,There's a Customer Born Every Minute: P.T. Barnum's Amazing 10 Rings of Power for Creating Fame, Fortune, and a Business Empire Today 2006

Mangin's Great Secret of Success

P. T. Barnum somehow intuitively knew the first law of advertising, and he knew it before it was ever expressed as a law: Get attention.

One of the people who reminded Barnum of this secret was Monsieur Mangin, a famous French businessman who sold the best pencils in all of Europe. Mangin would appear on a street corner dressed in unusual royal garb, riding a team of large horses. He would park, open his wagon with a great deal of pomp and circumstance, and slowly begin to put on a theatrical performance.

A crowd would always form, wondering what was happening. The French entrepreneur would then demonstrate his pencils, involve members of his audience, entertain them, and end by selling his product to nearly everyone present.

Years later Barnum met Mangin and complemented him on "... your manner of attracting the public. Your costume is elegant, your chariot is superb, and your valet and music are sure to draw".

Mangin ended their meeting by saying he was planning "a grand humbug", which "shall double the sale of my pencils".

John C. Francis,Notes and Queries, a Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. Eighth Series - Volume Twelfth, July-December London, 1897

Mangin the Pencil-Seller from M. Charles Yriarte, Celebrites de la Rue, 1864

Mangin sold his pencils for 20 centimes a single pencil or half a dozen with a medal and a portrait of himself for a franc. Mengin died sometime between 1864 and 1868.

Henry Charles Shelley, Old Paris; its Social, Historical, and Literary Associations, London, L. C. Page & Company, 1912

This practical type of street character in Paris was exemplified by "l'illustre Mangin", the pencil-seller, who as an orator, adequately sustained the traditions of Tabarin [a 17th century Paris street charlatan].

He is said to have taken a university degree, a belief which may have had no surer foundation than his fondness for classical illusions, but whatever the extent of his learning there was no denying his fluency of speech.

"Ladies, gentlemen, children, enemies and friends! Buy my pencils. There are no other pencils like them on the earth or in the spheres. Listen! They are black! You imagine, of course, in the immensity of your ignorance - it is wonderful how ignorant people are capable of being, especially about pencils - that all pencils are black. Error! Criminal error! Error as immense and fatal as that of Mark Antony when he fell in love with Cleopatra. All other pencils are grey!".

 

My husband gave me mysteries for Christmas.

First--appears to be some kind of game tokens, they are metallic/brassy and very thin (please excuse the quickie phone camera photos...)



Second-- a medal showing a view of the Emperor's Palace and a carp/?Boy's Day flag. I need to find a translation for this one.


and finally,

Third--this one will hopefully be more amenable to a simple google-fu. I just haven't gotten around to it, but I was very impressed my husband picked this one out for me. I have another Raoul Benard medal with that clean/deco design, so this will be a nice addition.





So, I guess the real mystery is how did my non-numismatically inclined husband manage to find such cool items? The Benard medal I can see him checking my eBay searches (Benard is one of MANY medallists I have on a followed search), but the game tokens I have no idea what he did to find them.