Traveling again here are some I picked up in St. Petersburg from two medal vending machines in the St. Peter and Paul Fortress. The coppery ones...
Matt has been kind enough to allow his coin images to illustrate my Wikipedia articles. Looking at the above, my day just perked up!
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Here's a couple more I picked up in Lima: South American: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Cochabamba, I learn, is the 4th largest city in Bolivia. I'm not...
The local store, I guess
I always enjoyed "show and tell" Another pair. Peruvian: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This brass piece is a bit larger than a nickel. It is rather worn....
I'm going to post one Peruvian (or area) piece, and one "how did this get to Lima?" [ATTACH] [ATTACH] For the life of me, I'm having trouble...
Back in the US after an international trip. I picked up a fair number of medals and tokens in Lima. If you are ever there, there are...
[ATTACH] I don't own it! Hah! I wish I did! It's a plaster reduction model for a coin honoring the late John Paul I, and it's in the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Aluminum and about the size of a quarter. Very little wear. Not sure how old but obviously long enough ago that it was worth...
Bryan went bald early, ironic considering he was the youngest (at 36) major party presidential candidate in history. By the lack of hair he's...
[ATTACH] These are two quarter-size tokens (read across for obverse and reverse of the same token) from Princess Cruises. They are used...
Thanks. I've uploaded the image to Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigger_countermark.jpg
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll upload the image to Wikimedia Commons later today so he can use the image freely.
Thanks, I guess it wasn't as clear (cutler/sutler) as I thought! Does it say anything interesting about this version? A ha'penny for it?...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is also from that bag of tokens etc. The inscription seems clear enough, "BIGGER/36 BOLTON STREET/SUTLER/DUBLIN". It's on...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm not quite sure what this is. It's in a bag of British tokens and cheap medals I bought some years ago. Just larger than a...
Not many, probably. Given this and the "cancelled" two mark pieces I saw (if you turn in DM coins, they put it through rollers before it leaves...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is an art medal produced by the Israeli Government Coins and Medals. I am Jewish, and used to be actively...
[ATTACH] It's a small strip that planchets for the 2-pfennig German (Federal Republic) pieces were made from. I bought it from a dealer at a...
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