Let's see your exonumia!

Really liked the design so it was a spur of the moment purchase.Description from Heritage:

1915 Florida at Pan-Pac Expo, HK-404.Silver-plated bronze, 38.1 mm, "rare" (HK, 1963). The obverse is a takeoff on the famous ancient (ca. 200 B.C.) Winged Victory of Samothrace, while the reverse is a modified state seal, with an anachronistic steamship sailing past a Native American in traditional garb, with the sun setting over the mountains in the background and a palm tree.

 

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One of my favorites . . . . .

Z

 

Here’s another that arrived today and was an impulse buy





“1904 U.S. Express Co 50th Anniversary, HK-735. Issued to commemorate the founding of the United States Express Company in 1854. Listed as "extremely rare" in the Hibler-Kappen standard reference, with a 1963 value of $85.”

 

A new CWT.

 

1959 St. Lawrence Seaway
Heraldic Art Medal







1959 St. Lawrence Seaway
Heraldic Art Medal
Duplicate





This is my second, a duplicate St Lawrence Seaway and it is also the thick version at around 262 grains or 16.98 grams. The mintage for the thick was 2200 where the earlier minted 1959 St Lawrence Seaway variety was thin and 192 grains or almost 12.5 grams of .925 fine silver and had a higher recorded mintage of 3700.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permit oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior.



I have been on The Saint Lawrence River and Lake Ontario in my small 18 foot boat fishing for salmon, lake trout and steelhead.
Out far enough to be near the shipping lanes where no land was in sight. To see a huge freighter in the distance was always exciting.
I would love to have been the captain of one of those ships.

 

1962 Project Mercury
Heraldic Art Medal
so-called half dollar





This Heraldic Art Medal has a lower mintage than others at 3,500 and they usually fetch a significant premium.

John H. Glenn, Jr. (July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016) became the first American to orbit the Earth in the Mercury spacecraft, named "Friendship 7" on Feb. 20, 1962, then left NASA and went into politics, serving as a US Senator from 1974 to 1999. He flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission at age 77 in 1998 as a Payload Specialist.
Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals.

Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. This medal commemorates "Telstar 1" launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962.
It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. Telstar 2 launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2—though no longer functional—still orbit the Earth.

 

Recently I’ve mostly been buying stuff that fits here. Not sure why but here’s a couple more

 

They really romanticized that one didn't they. Maybe women would be grateful for it back them but now it would just "suck."

Bruce

 

Oh Yes Z
You got one!
Yaaaaaay!

 

1967 Walt Disney
National Commemorative Society
Franklin Mint
26.6 gr. 39mm .925 silver






I remember Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color as a kid which ran from 1961 to 1969 every Sunday night. During those years, I doubt I missed many episodes, except maybe some of those on summer nights.
We didn't have a color TV yet and when we got one perhaps around 1965 it was amazing.
Not all television shows were in color but Disney was and so was Bonanza as I recall.
It was like Dorothy just stepped out into Munchkinland and there it was. COLOR!
The NBC peacock would show up nice and bright, then the splashing of red yellow and blue with Tinkerbell.
Fireworks over the castle and then the intro by Disney himself about the evenings show.
I remember being sad that Disney died when I heard about it.
I was probably about 9 yrs old.



On the Obverse is a handsome profile of Walt Disney.
On the Reverse …
Cinderella Castle, Mickey Mouse, probably Pluto, and maybe Pinocchio and I am guessing a rather friendly looking Captain Hooks ship "The Jolly Roger".
Then of course, easily recognizable, is Mary Poppins, and perhaps Bambi's Father or Bambi all grown up.
Walt Disney is in the center with his art tablet.

 

1960 Pioneer Inventions
Heraldic Art Medal
16.5 gr .925 silver 32mm

 

1863 50th Anniversary of the Napoleonic Wars / Battle of Leipzig Medal


G. Loos / C. Fischer

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1972 - Longines Symphonette
1814 Star Spangled Banner
34.1 gr 40mm .925 silver medal





During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key and others dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant as one of the guests of British officers.
Key was there to negotiate the release of prisoners. They were not allowed to return to their own sloop because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore.
Thus, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13–14, 1814.



At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving.
Back in Baltimore and inspired, Key wrote a poem about his experience, "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was soon published in William Pechin's American and Commercial Daily Advertiser on September 21, 1814.

It has become better known as "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Though somewhat difficult to sing, it became increasingly popular, competing with "Hail, Columbia" (1796) as the de facto national anthem by the time of the Mexican–American War and American Civil War.

More than a century after its first publication, the song was adopted as the American National Anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover.

When the National Anthem of the United States is sung or played, I personally grew up observing that men and women stand at attention and face in the direction of the music when it was played.
Men and women are to place their hands over their hearts only if the flag was displayed and face the flag. Those in uniform are required to salute.
I am proud to do this with respect for my country and flag.

 

1973 Mount Rushmore
with Benjamin Black Elk Portrait
Medallic Art Co. Bronze Medal





Black Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863 along the Little Powder River. ( Montana ) He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse.



When Black Elk was nine years old, he was suddenly taken ill; he lay prone and unresponsive for several days. During this time he had a great vision in which he was visited by the Thunder Beings, and taken to the "Six Grandfathers" — spiritual representatives of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below.
Mount Rushmore was originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers"

In his vision, Black Elk is taken to the center of the earth, and to the central mountain of the world. Black Elk was residing at the axis of the six sacred directions.

As Black Elk related:

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

He worked among his people as a healer and medicine man.
In 1887, Black Elk traveled to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
On May 11, 1887, the troupe put on a command performance for Queen Victoria, whom they called "Grandmother England." Black Elk was among the crowd at her Golden Jubilee.
Black Elk participated in the fighting at Wounded Knee in 1890. While on horseback, he charged soldiers and helped to rescue some of the wounded. He arrived after many of Spotted Elk's (Big Foot's) band of people had been shot, and he was grazed by a bullet to his hip.

This medal depicts a portrait of his son. Benjamin Black Elk (1899–1973), became known as the "Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore", posing in the 1950s and 1960s for tourists at the memorial. Benjamin played an uncredited role in the 1962 film How the West Was Won.

What Mt Rushmore looked like before it was completed.



Today.

 

1974 Lewis and Clark
Medallic Art Co.
38mm bronze medal





This is a Solid Bronze Medal commemorating Lewis & Clark's "Voyage of Discovery".
The medal was struck by the Medallic Art Company of Danbury, Connecticut.
Medal shows Lewis & Clark in the foreground, with Sacagawea and other expedition members in the background.

Obverse, with the legend "THE JOURNEY THAT SHAPED AMERICA'S DESTINY - LEWIS & CLARK".

Reverse features an American Indian on horseback in the foreground, with a herd of Buffalo in the background, with the legend "MAH-DOOM-AY-NEEW KEE-NEE-TSEE-TAH-BEE - THE FIRST ONES".

The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.

It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast. The Corps of Discovery comprised a selected group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark.



President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it.
The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with local Native American tribes.
With maps, sketches, and journals in hand, the expedition returned to St. Louis to report its findings to Jefferson.

 

2017 Thalassa
1oz .999 Trident Silver Round





The primordial goddess (protogenos) of the sea. Mingled with Pontos, her male counterpart. Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element.
She begat Aphrodite (among other gods) as well as populating the sea with all of the types of fish we know today.
As per tradition, she is shown partially submerged in the ocean and surrounded by crashing waves and aquatic life.

Poseidon and Amphitrite, the anthropomorphic king and queen of the sea, were the rulers of the elemental Pontos and Thalassa.

Thalassa defends herself in Aesop's fable,
"The Farmer and the Sea"