John, I couldn't find out much about your George Washington piece. It is listed on the tokencatalog.com website with id TC-425040, with no other...
A side note on those 1951 Hula Girl Bus tokens - they were never placed in use.
I'm surprised no one checked the math in the linked to PCGS article. From the article "the tiyin is worth about 0.0000010 United States dollars....
Not Covid related, but there can be other issues at times that will halt mail service. For instance, in early 2017 the Guatemalan government had a...
Regarding the GSA token, yours has an id of DC 500 AFa (serif on the "G", small letters) and is listed in Atwood-Coffee's Transportation Token...
1. Probably around 10 years old. 2. About 55 years. While buying a house and raising kids, my interests shifted a bit over to the exonumia realm,...
No one mentioned the silvery color on the reverse and especially on the edge. I don't think that is reflection from the 2 x 2. Bad plating job?
Somewhere the idea took root to update that booklet, so far I have identified 273 varieties from 116 communities in Michigan ranging from 1934 to...
I imagine there would have to be duplicates in a collection of that size, but if one were to include all types of wooden nickels ever issued in...
I frequent Kaufman Realty & Auctions in Sugarcreek, Ohio. Third Tuesday of each month is a coins only auction with 4-500 lots. Some months have an...
It is late, so I may have missed it, but one thing I didn't see mentioned is that there are 3 basic categories: officials, semi-officials, and...
These are still being made, but granted not in the numbers of days past. Ed, pres. Penn-Ohio Wooden Money Collectors
I completely agree with you on those points.
He is not melting them down for the copper, just selling them as they are. Evidently people are willing to pay his price, because he has been...
I know of a guy that says he goes thru 50,000 cents every week primarily to pull the copper ones out. I've bought a few hundred pounds of them at...
Randy, You may have some interest in a small memorial park honoring Armstrong located in my hometown of Warren, Ohio. Neil's family lived in...
Just going by what the guys here in China told me about it. He showed pics to someone more knowledgeable of these, and was told this is a fairly...
I showed the pics to a couple of guys and they both thought it was a circulating coin from perhaps 200-300 years ago. One of them thought it was...
I'll try to remember to show these pics to someone while at work tomorrow. I'm currently the only one there that can't speak Chinese (Mandarin).
I might be able to provide some additional info on this token (ID #, manufacturer, etc) as I have a reference book on pre-1900 presidential...
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