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Transit tokens...I have a few:

I have one more...not a military transit token but no picture handy.

 

Medal made from the bronze metal from the propeller of USS Olympia. This ship carried the remains of the Unknown Soldier of WWI from France to Washington DC in 1921. For more of the story, please see this link: https://www.americanrifleman.org/ar...-god-the-unknown-soldier-and-the-uss-olympia/

 

Very nice set up, Jack. Not fancy but it does a great job.

I have a camera stand and use a white background for my coins. I take decent pictures, but don't do much editing on them. I'm happy with my pics as is. Just a simple record of what I have.

Bruce

 

I don't edit beyond combining, cropping, and resizing. I also save the images with catalog number, base/location, and denomination. Duplicates have a number added in parentheses behind it. I have more than 90% of all my tokens photographed now which makes life so much better. Now I need to figure out a way to back them up somewhere.

 

Here's an unlisted and rare token:


TN10b, Cross Mountain Air Force Station, brass, 35mm

Construction began 21 Jul 1950 on Cross Mountain Air Force Station (AFS) as an aircraft radar station intended to watch the skies for invaders and direct defender aircraft. The 663rd Aircraft Control and Warning squadron first began operations at McGhee Tyson Airport on 1 Jan 1951. Later they moved to Tennessee Guard Armory in Maryville, November 1951. Construction finished on Cross Mountain AFS in March 1952. Cross Mountain AFS was re-designated as Lake City AFS 1 December 1953. Operations ceased 1 June 1961 and the site is now home to radio and television antennas. Unknown what the station was called when this token was in use.

Here is their emblem:


Notice the tram in the right lower portion of the emblem - the site had a tram between the radar towers and the rest of the station.

In case anyone is interested I created a thread where I shared some of my paper chits with tokens. Below is another set I was recently able to assemble:


GA110b, Hunter AFB, brass, 35mm

Here are the accompanying paper chits:





A scan of the book cover:



If you missed the thread where I posted the other tokens and chits, here it is:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/military-script-with-tokens.341002/#post-3573705

 

Bid board find for $0.25

 

There is a Lisbon in Maryland also. Guess we had some Portuguese immigrants way back when.

 

A few military tokens for tonight:


MR60c, Nouasseur Air Base, Morocco; brass, 18mm (Cunningham calls Nouasseur an Air Depot but I'm not convinced that was what the base was known as when it was called Nouasseur or if fulfilled that function.)


VN4160a, Qui Nhon Air Base, Vietnam; brass, 21mm


PI1190a, Wallace Air Station, Philippines; plated brass, 21mm

 

Found in an old collection, I'm guessing it's a seated half. One side says "Allan Watson" in script, other side "July 4th, 1881" and (I think) F.B.C. Has reeded edges. Other than that, I know nothing...Crusty walker included for scale.