Information on a rare G.Washington Coin.

Hi Everybody,

Does any one have some info on this George Washington Coin?
I've had if for a very long time and I don't know anything about it.
Recently I've been searching the internet but I couldn't find anything on this coin.
So I'm assuming it's a rare coin since I couldn't get any info on it.
If anyone out there can provide some information about this coin it would be great.
Info on how old the coin really is, how many are there in the world, does is coin have a name, how much is it worth. Anything would be helpful.
Not being able to find information on this coin has made me really curious.

Thanx a lot everybody.

Happy New Year!!!

Johnny

 

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Welcome to the forum, Johnny. I can tell you that it is not a coin. It is a commemorative medal or token of some kind. There are members here who collect tokens and medals and I'm sure that one will be along soon who can help you.

 

Welcome to the forum Johnny.

Susan is absolutely correct. At last count there had been hundreds of Washington medals produced over the last two centuries plus. They are collectible as exonumia.

A number of early ones are shown in the Guide Book of United States Coins, aka the Red Book, but yours is not one of them, so I can't even begin to guess at value. Unfortunately there does seem to be some environmental damage, particularly to the obverse, so I'm sorry to say that the value probably isn't very high.

 

Can you say Shell Oil? If you can, then that's who made this token. I've got literally hundreds of them. They made them for about 5 or 7 presidents. You can get them with a card to place them in. I'd say it's prolly worth about 15 cents.

 

Wow

I have the exact same coin as you. Mine might be a little clearer. I've searched everywhere for info on this coin. is it really only worth 15 cents?

 

Ok..This is weird...I have the same coin but I have 50 presidents in a hall of fame box

 

as mentioned above:

1) NOT a coin.
2) a medal or commemorative piece of sorts.
3) similar to the gas station tokens of the 1960's.

4) 15 cents? possibly.

 

I do believe these are Shell Oil tokens. I have found many with my metal detector over the years and it is a bummer because they signal like a large silver coin on my antique detector. (White's circa 1995)