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Sweet memories, Wehwalt. This is one reason why collecting exonumia is so much fun.
I live in New Jersey, but not familiar with Woodcliff. I would guess North Jersey.

Bruce

 

I bought this at a Shinto shrine in Japan, I think in Kobe. It is to be used by those praying for prosperity. Note the (real) Japanese 5-yen coin in addition to the two symbolic "coins" and the little bell which I gather is to attract the attention of the gods. About 5 inches long. I guess you rake in the money.

 

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UK Royal Horticulture Society Silver Medal 45 mm

 

Silver Round that pays tribute to King Leonidas and his 7,000 Greek force at the Battle Thermopylae. Of that 7, 000 300 were Spartans; hence the movie 300 Spartans and the remake 300.

Spartan males were forbidden to be anything else but soldiers and they began training at age seven. It was the Spartans who made The Last Stand at Thermopylae. They had inflicted so many casualties on the Persians that King Xerxe withdrew his forces and had his archers just keep firing until the Spartans were all dead.

Before the battle King Xerxe demanded the Greeks lay down their weapons to which King Leonidas replied: "Molon Labe" (come and take).

Golden State Mint, M/A, 39mm, 1 Oz. .999 silver.

 

@Circus what does the material of this token appear to be? Interesting!!!

 

Aluminum, Palmolive Co put a number of stop sign sided token for soap cakes for a number of their brands

 

This Palmolive Peet token is from Berkeley California near where I grew up.


Palmolive Peet soap token Berkeley (California)

 

Here is my only numismatic purchase from calendar year 2018. A quite difficult token to acquire in this condition.
Cheers to all!

 

A lot of these nickel size tokens were made for pinball machines around Minnesota. The primary maker was Northwestern Stamp Works in Minneapolis. When the minter was setting up his dies he would use a previously made token. Sometimes it had a blank back sometimes they would flatten a previous design. This step allowed him to check his spelling, setting and strike. If the resulting token was legible it was frequently tossed into the new order. They are relatively scarce but some purists consider them to be damaged. Others think of them as rare varieties. I like to display them with a perfect version on one side; the overstrike in the middle and a perfect version of the flattened token on the right. Undamaged specimens are valued at 25c in the 1984 catalog. They easily sell for $1 to $2.50 current retail.

 

Nice pieces, longnine. The quote from King Leonidas "Molon Labe" reminds me of the American general's response to the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge when asked to surrender...NUTS. The germans had trouble understanding what that meant.

Bruce