Let's see your exonumia!

Here's a new, well new to me Yate's fatman with glasses Token along with a couple of others oh and there's a badge down there as well!

 

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Below is just a mix but there's also a Token from Cuba from 1884 and a Red Goose!

 

Love the Red Goose Good Luck. Never saw that one before.

 

1969 John Wesley Powell
Grand Canyon
Heraldic Art Medal





John Wesley Powell

As a young man he undertook a series of adventures through the Mississippi River valley.

In 1855, he spent four months walking across Wisconsin. During 1856, he rowed the Mississippi from St. Anthony, Minnesota, to the sea. In 1857, he rowed down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River, traveling north to reach St. Louis. In 1858 he rowed down the Illinois River, then up the Mississippi and the Des Moines River to central Iowa. At age 25, he was elected in 1859 to the Illinois Natural History Society.

During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army, first with the 20th Illinois Volunteers. While stationed at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he recruited an artillery company that became Battery "F" of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery with Powell as captain. On November 28, 1861, Powell took a brief leave to marry the former Emma Dean.

At the Battle of Shiloh, he lost most of his right arm when struck by a minie ball while in the process of giving the order to fire.



Despite the loss of an arm, he returned to the Army and was present at Champion Hill, Big Black River Bridge on the Big Black River and in the siege of Vicksburg. Always the geologist he took to studying rocks while in the trenches at Vicksburg.

He was made a major and commanded an artillery brigade with the 17th Army Corps during the Atlanta Campaign. After the fall of Atlanta he was transferred to George H. Thomas' army and participated in the battle of Nashville.
At the end of the war he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel, but preferred to use the title of "Major".

After the war he returned to exploring.
In 1869, he set out from Green River, Wyoming to explore the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, the first of European descent to do so.



He gathered nine men, four boats and food for 10 months.
One man left shortly after they started out and later three, who disappeared. They were never found and were believed to have been killed by the Shivwitz band of the Southern Paiute.

In 1881, Powell was appointed the second director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He was also the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution until his death.

Under his leadership, the Smithsonian published an influential classification of North American Indian languages.

 

1963 John F Kennedy
Homage Medal
Heraldic Art Medal




If you are as old as I am or older, you remember a few things for the rest of your life. Where you were when it happened and some things about the reaction of those around you. How you felt when you heard the news.

Yes, I remember hearing of the assassination of JFK when I was in school that day, even as a little kid.
We were sent home early.

Our Zenith black and white television on all day and night. The three or four channels that we had covering this event continuously for days. Then the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the funeral when President Kennedy lay in state and the long silent procession.



I can still remember the clip clop clip clop of the horses which is all the sound that was really heard the whole way to Arlington Cemetery.



I have visited this place of the eternal flame on a later school field trip at Arlington, still in grade school.
Although, I really had no understanding of politics or vicious crimes as a small kid,

I do remember as I did, that all the people around me and on the TV, all seemed to share the same confusion, grief and sadness.
It was a time when everyone was united completely, on some emotional common place.

I had the same feeling when the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the jet fell in Pennsylvania on 9-11-01.

Only then. I was not the innocent child I was when JFK was killed.

 

1964 Nevada Statehood
Heraldic Art Medal





Silver mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, began in 1858 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver-mining district in the United States. Nevada calls itself the "Silver State."

Nevada is the nation's second-largest producer of silver, after Alaska. In 2014 Nevada produced 10.93 million troy ounces of silver, of which 6,74 million ounces were as a byproduct of the mining of gold.

Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War in 1864.

Eight days before the presidential election of 1864, Nevada became the 36th state in the union, despite lacking the minimum requisite 60,000 residents in order to become a state.
At the time Nevada's population was little more than 10,000.

Rather than sending the Nevada constitution to Washington by Pony Express, the full text was sent by telegraph at a cost of $3,416.77.
It was the most costly telegraph on file for a single dispatch. Finally, the response from Washington came on October 31, 1864: "the pain is over, the child is born, Nevada this day was admitted into the Union".

Statehood was rushed to the date of October 31 to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election on November 8 and post-Civil War Republican dominance in Congress.
Nevada's mining-based economy tied it to the more industrialized Union.

As it turned out, however, Lincoln and the Republicans won the election handily, and did not need Nevada's help.



The Carson City Mint was built as a result of the great amounts of silver mined in Nevada. Founder of Carson City and named the first superintendent of the newly constructed Mint, Abraham Curry oversaw the production of the first coins struck at the Carson City Mint in January of 1870.

The first coins struck were those of Christian Gobrecht’s Liberty Seated silver dollars design from 1836. The famous “CC” mintmark was chosen and placed below the heraldic eagle.

 

1964 Pocahontas - John Rolfe
Heraldic Art Medal

(glare from photo in 2x2, sorry)




In 1613, the English captured Pocahontas and held her hostage for a year as they tried to negotiate peace with the Algonquin Natives.

While in custody, Pocahontas learned English customs and spent time with John Rolfe, a religious man who encouraged her to convert to Christianity.

By the time Powhatan agreed to pay the ransom, Pocahontas had decided to stay with the English and marry Rolfe, who said the match was “for the good of the plantation, the honor of our country, for the glory of God, for mine own salvation.”

Pocahontas was baptized and took the English name Rebecca. Powhatan consented to the marriage, believing it would promote peace, and sent relatives to witness the ceremony held in Jamestown’s church.



Pocahontas gave birth to the couple’s only son, Thomas, in January 1615. The following year, the family traveled to England to help promote the colonies. There, Pocahontas caused a sensation in public events, balls and for an audience of the royal family.

In March 1617, before Rolfe could return to Virginia, Pocahontas became ill and died. She was 22.

A couple non sports cards I have of Pocahontas.

1933 Goudey Indian Gum No 33





1954 Topps Scoop No 150

 

fretboard's image:



It resembles a more modern motion picture prop coin:


Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company - James Monroe Token - Bird of Paradise
White metal, 38 mm, 20.68 gm
Obverse: James Monroe facing half left, wreath and ribbon, no text
Reverse: Bird of Paradise (peacock?) and man kneeling in temple (movie theater?) surrounded by eight-pointed rounded star, no text

Also a similar token was posted here:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-exonumia.203005/page-542

 

@TheNickelGuy ,

Along the lines of your Nevada Heraldic Art medal and the history of silver, are the Colorado Jos. W. Lesher Referendum Dollars.

Minted in and around 1900, the original silver octagon Lesher Referendum Dollars quickly became an important part of Colorado and silvers history.

While the original Lesher Dollars are scarce to rare and generally unaffordable to most collectors, between 1985 and 1993 the American Numismatic Association and the City of Victor reproduced fundraising tribute reproductions that are still hard to find, but much more affordable.






These fundraising tributes were minted in quantities of 1,000 each, mirroring the total number of original pieces minted. Most of these modern tribute pieces have survived, making them much easier to find.

https://so-calleddollars.com/Events/Lesher_Dollars.html

If those are still to difficult to locate, between roughly 2014 and 2017 Daniel Carr struck a number of Lesher tribute pieces of his own design that are quite desirable in their own right.




Z

 

1963 Battle of Lake Erie
Heraldic Art Medal





The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy.



This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh.

It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry is most noted for his heroic role in the War of 1812 during the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie.

During the war against Britain, Perry supervised the building of a fleet at Erie, Pennsylvania. He earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, receiving a Congressional Gold Medal and the Thanks of Congress.



His leadership materially aided the successful outcomes of all nine Lake Erie military campaign victories, and the victory was a turning point in the battle for the west in the war.

He is remembered for the words on his battle flag, "Don't Give Up the Ship" and his message to General William Henry Harrison which reads in part, "We have met the enemy and they are ours"



I have two of these, I must have got a duplicate in a lot of other Heraldic Art Medals.

 

1961 Battle of Tippecanoe
Heraldic Art Medal





Tecumseh Comes to Vincennes

Tecumseh travelled with a party of Native Americans to attempt to negotiate with Harrison.
Below, a heated dispute between U.S. President William Henry Harrison and Shawnee Indigenous leader Tecumseh.



The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought November 7, 1811, during Tecumseh's War. In the early 19th century, Native American tribes sought to oppose American expansion into the Old Northwest Territory. Led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, the Native Americans began to assemble a force to oppose the settlers. In an effort to prevent this, the Governor of the Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, marched out with a force of around 1,000 men to disperse Tecumseh's men.



As Tecumseh was away recruiting, command of the Native American forces fell to his brother Tenskwatawa. A spiritual leader known as "The Prophet", he ordered his men to attack Harrison's army as it encamped along Burnett Creek.



In the resulting Battle of Tippecanoe, Harrison's men were victorious and Tenskwatawa's forces were shattered. The defeat resulted in a severe setback for Tecumseh's efforts to unite the tribes.

Tecumseh remained an active threat until 1813 when he fell fighting against Harrison's army at the Battle of the Thames. On the larger stage, the Battle of Tippecanoe further fueled the tensions between Britain and the United States as many Americans blamed the British for inciting the tribes to violence. These tensions came to a head in June 1812 with the outbreak of the War of 1812.



Territorial Governor of Indiana 1801-1813 and also Indian commissioner.
He gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against Native Americans at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. He earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe". He was promoted to Major general in the United States Army in the subsequent War of 1812.
His most notable action was in the Battle of the Thames in 1813.
This battle resulted in the death of Tecumseh and the dissolution of the Indian coalition which Tecumseh had led.
Congress awarded Harrison a gold medal for his services during the War of 1812.

Harrison served the shortest term of any American president.
March 4 – April 4, 1841, 30 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes.
He died on Sunday, April 4, 1841. Harrison's doctor, Thomas Miller, diagnosed Harrison's cause of death as "pneumonia of the lower lobe of the right lung".
A medical analysis made in 2014, based on Dr. Miller's notes and records of the White House water supply being downstream of public sewage, concluding that he likely died of septic shock due to enteric fever.

 

1963 West Virginia
Statehood Centennial
Heraldic Art Medal



On the obverse:
A mountaineer on a high ridge with his rifle.

Montani Semper Liberi
translates to:
Mountaineers are always Free
motto of West Virginia



On the reverse:
The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, the building was dedicated in 1932.

Libertas E Fidelitate
translates to:
Liberty out of Fidelity
motto of West Virginia

and . . .

Dimetrodon is often mistaken for a dinosaur or as a contemporary of dinosaurs in popular culture, but it became extinct some 40 million years before the first appearance of dinosaurs.



Reptile-like in appearance and physiology, Dimetrodon is nevertheless more closely related to mammals than to modern reptiles, though it is not a direct ancestor of mammals.

What it is doing on this medal is a mystery to me!

 

Finally got around to taking pictures of these bonus woods.
Fine centering and sharp printing on good wood.
Nice artwork and Thank you dwhiz!

 

This arrived today, it's nicer then I though it would be.

 

1966 Indiana Statehood
Heraldic Art Medal





You can't spell INDIANA without INDIAN
And the two conjoined busts on this Heraldic Art so-called half dollar were no strangers in fighting them.

In the foreground is past president William Henry Harrison who died after 31 days becoming president, the shortest time a US President ever served.
Before election as president, Harrison served as the first congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory and the first Governor of Indiana Territory.

He gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against Native Americans at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, where he earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe".
He was promoted to major general in the subsequent War of 1812, and served in the Battle of the Thames the following year. This battle resulted in the death of Tecumseh and the dissolution of the Native American coalition which Tecumseh had led.

Behind him is George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark was an American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He was the second of 10 children of John and Ann Rogers Clark, who were Anglicans of English and Scots ancestry.
Five of their six sons became officers during the American Revolutionary War. Their youngest son William was too young to fight in the war, but he later became famous as a leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
George Rogers Clark served as leader of the militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and in 1779 Clark led a small force across a harsh, wintry terrain & took Vincennes.

His men covered 180 miles in 18 days, often without food, and marching through icy water. This attack was the high point of Clark's careerduring the Illinois Campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory.

Clark's major military achievements occurred before his thirtieth birthday.
Afterwards, he led militia in the opening engagements of the Northwest Indian War but was accused of being drunk on duty. He was disgraced and forced to resign, despite his demand for a formal investigation into the accusations.

He left Kentucky to live on the Indiana frontier but was never fully reimbursed by Virginia for his wartime expenditures. He spent the final decades of his life evading creditors and living in increasing poverty and obscurity.

In later life Clark continued to struggle with alcohol abuse, a problem which had plagued him on-and-off for many years.

He also remained bitter about his treatment and neglect by Virginia, and blamed it for his financial misfortune. Died an invalid, an amputee and suffered from strokes.

 

1970 Nathan B. Palmer
Antarctic Pioneer
Heraldic Art Medal





Nathaniel Brown Palmer was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer.
He gave his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his Hero sloop.



Houqua was an early clipper ship with an innovative hull design, built for A.A. Low & Brother in 1844.

Captain Nathaniel Palmer was an advisor to the Lows as a marine superintendent and helped design The Houqua.

I find no information validating that the Houqua was the actual "First China Clipper" as stated on the obverse of this medal.

When these vessels of a new model were built, which were intended to "clip" over the waves rather than plough through them, the improved type of craft became known as "clippers" because of their speed.

To sailors, three things made a ship a clipper. She must be sharp-lined, built for speed. She must be tall-sparred and carry the utmost spread of canvas. And she must use that sail, day and night, fair weather and foul.

Houqua sailed in the China trade where tea and opium were the usual cargo.
On May 5th 1853 in a violent squall, a meteor, apparently about the size of a man’s head, broke at the masthead, throwing out the most violent sparks.
Houqua sailed from Yokohama, August 15, 1864, for New York, and was thereafter never heard from again.

It is assumed she sank in a tsunami.

 

1972 Longines Symphonette
Flying Cloud
40mm 34 gr. Sterling Silver





Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.
The ship held this record for over 100 years, from 1854 to 1989.



Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber trades.

 

1970 Stephen Decatur
Heraldic Art Medal





Commodore Edward Preble had assumed command of the U.S. Mediterranean Squadron in 1803. By October of that year Preble had begun a blockade of Tripoli harbor.

The first significant action of the blockade came on 31 October when USS Philadelphia ran aground on an uncharted coral reef and the Tripolitan Navy was able to capture the ship along with its crew and Captain William Bainbridge.

Philadelphia was turned against the Americans and anchored in the harbor as a gun battery.
On the night of 16 February 1804, a small contingent of U.S. Marines in a captured Tripolitan ketch, rechristened USS Intrepid and led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. were able to deceive the guards on board Philadelphia and float close enough to board the captured ship.
Decatur's men stormed the vessel and decimated the Tripolitan sailors standing guard. To complete the daring raid, Decatur's party set fire to Philadelphia, denying her use to the enemy.

Decatur's bravery in action made him one of the first American military heroes since the Revolutionary War. The British Admiral Horatio Nelson, himself known as a man of action and bravery, is said to have called this "the most bold and daring act of the age."

This etching is known as
Decatur's Conflict with the Algerine at Tripoli



( also shown on the reverse of this medal.)


Because of Commodore James Barron loss of Chesapeake to the British,
Barron faced a court-martial and was barred from command for a term of five years. Decatur had served on the court-martial that had found Barron guilty of "unpreparedness".

Barron became embittered towards Decatur and challenged him to a duel. A duel, during a period when duels between officers were so common that it was creating a shortage of experienced officers.
This forced the War Department to threaten to discharge those who attempted to pursue the practice.

Decatur turned to his supposed friend Commodore William Bainbridge to act as his second, to which Bainbridge consented.
However, Decatur made a poor choice... Bainbridge, who was five years his senior, had long been jealous of the younger and more famous Decatur.
Barron's and Decatur's seconds met on March 8 to establish the time and place for the duel and the rules to be followed. The arrangements were exact.

The duel was at a distance of only eight paces, arranged by in a way that made the wounding or death of both duelists very likely. Just before the duel, Barron spoke to Decatur of conciliation, however, the men's seconds did not attempt to halt the proceedings.

Decatur, an expert pistol shot, planned only to wound Barron in the hip.
Both shot simultaneously and Decatur got the worst of it, dying of a leg wound bleeding to death.

After Decatur's funeral, rumors circulated of a last-minute conversation between the duelists that could have avoided the deadly outcome of the duel, moreover, that the seconds involved might have been planning for such an outcome and accordingly made no real attempts to stop the duel.
Decatur's wife Susan held an even more damning view of the matter and spent much of her remaining life pursuing justice for what she termed "the assassins" involved.

Commodore Decatur fought in the Quasi-War, First Barbary War, Battle of Tripoli Harbor, War of 1812 and Second Barbary War. He is the youngest man to reach the rank of captain in the history of the United States Navy, and was in command of 7 ships.

USS Argus
USS Enterprise
USS Chesapeake
USS United States
USS President
USS Constitution
USS Guerriere

 

Liked the color and condition of this one.

 

1969 San Diego
Heraldic Art Medal





Gaspar de Portolà was a Spanish soldier and administrator in New Spain. As commander of the Spanish colonizing expedition on land and sea that established San Diego and Monterey, Portolà expanded New Spain's Las Californias province far to the north from its beginnings on the Baja California peninsula.

Portolà's expedition also was the first European to see San Francisco Bay. The expedition gave names to geographic features along the way, many of which are still in use.

Portolà traveled with Saint Father Junípero Serra who was canonized by Pope Francis in 2015.
Father Junípero, (shown on reverse) was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco.

There is a relief bust of Portolà outside of The Museum of Man near Balboa Park.



An architectural medallion of Junípero Serra is also in Balboa Park, San Diego.