Post your tokens & Medals (mine are from the bargain box)

Here are some more tokens & medals gleaned from the bargain box. These were all found at the Naugatuck CT coin show a couple weeks ago.

Connecticut USA Bicentennial Medal 1976

Removal of the Connecticut Battle Flags Sept 17, 1879

 

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1954 100 year anniversary of Windsor Locks Medal

1929 50 year anniversary (Jubilee) of the light bulb Medal

 

Good For One Loaf
A. Roderick P. Main Pioneer Bakery (Australia)

Good For Crystal White Palmolive Soap

 

1936 Westinghouse Refrigerator 50 Year (Jubilee) Medal

Mac Puffin Dollar
Gathering of the Clans, Nova Scotia

 

1933 Dr. West's Products
Good For 2 1/2 cents, The Western Company

M. E. O'Neill Good For 5 cent drink
brockage of anvil coin reverse on unknown host planchet

 

Pretty Vickie Gaming Jetton
Keep Your Temper

1861 Confederate Half Dollar
Reverse is stamped "COnfederate PaY"

 

1934 V.F.W. Christmas Medal
Good luck in 1935

Edward's Street School Lapel Pin
New Haven, CT

1924 Honolulu Transit Token

 

Nixon Agnew Political Button

Nixon Sunoco "Presidential Coin Series" Medal
(2000)

Nixon Inauguration Medal
(1973)

 

That's quite an assortment!

Chris

 

The pictures are not the best. Unknown medal (prob. Italian, based on the legend it may be to commemorate ecumenism) perhaps someone can give further information?

 

I don't have any metals, but I have hundreds of tokens. I'll just post a few of my favorites.

 

I have way too many medals to post here, so I'll just post this one.

Chris

 

One for all & all for one... Obviously your medal is really (really) nice.

I could probably be tempted to trade you for one of the items I posted above. :devil: I paid an average of 83 1/3 cents for each of the pieces I posted. I suspect that you may have paid a little more for your primo piece.

 

This medal was struck in copper (shown) and also brass or bronze (not sure which but it looks more like brass). I bought the copper one at the FUN Show in 2005. I didn't find the brass one until a few years later on eBay, and quite frankly, didn't even know one existed.

Here is the story behind them........

The medals commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the return of the Geneva Canton to the Swiss Confederation in 1814. Prior to that, it had been under French rule for 3 centuries.

If you look at a map, you will see that the Geneva Canton is surrounded almost completely by France with only a small spit of land connecting it to Switzerland. To this day, French is still a dominant language in the Geneva Canton.

The high points of the copper specimen are a beautiful irridescent blue. This is what drew my attention to it at the FUN Show in the first place. I've seen other specimens of the copper a couple of times on eBay, but they have been in far worse condition. The brass specimen doesn't look anywhere near as nice, but since I had never seen any others before, it was a "must have" to accompany the copper.

I paid $165 for the copper and $75 for the brass, but I wouldn't sell them for that since they are so hard to find.

Thanks for the interest.

Chris

 

Nice piece Ripley.

Here is a Wikipedia link describing Patton. He led a very full life which included Olympic competition, inventions, and several military and civilian innovations. He died after WWII from complications after a bad car accident.
This link is a very quick read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Patton

 

I used to have a copy of Lucky Forward, the story of Patton by Robert S. Allen, but it got lost somehow. It's interesting to note in the link I provided that Allen was purported to have been on the KGB payroll in the 30's.

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/post...intel_officer_briefly_was_on_the_kgbs_payroll

Chris

 

Thanks for posting the items

Nice example of the $20 Confederate coin. Of course my 50-cent Confederate coin appears to be countermarked by the Confederate pay master. The 50-cent reverse is countermarked "Confederate Pay" or "Copy" :devil:

 

CA bicentennial medal: