Ancient coins and very old tags, flips and containers

Thanks.

@TIF , and @dougsmit (who pointed them out) also have some.


Edit: David Sear got a kick out of seeing it too

 

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I've gotten a lot of coins from the Reverend Willis McGill Collection (McGill was an American missionary stationed in Egypt, who started collecting there during World War I) with his old handwritten envelopes:


This yellow envelope came with this countermarked coin, but I question how old it is (online navigation directions on flap):


I got this envelope with this Daia (though it seems to have been used for another coin or it was misattributed originally?) :


And my 1st ancient came with this folded German (?) paper, and it's indented curcularly as if the coin had been stored within, complete with its label handwritten:

 

The folded "german" paper is an invitation to the anniversary of an insurance company in Graz, Austria in 1948.

 

There is an old CT thread where we each showed ours. I bought mine on eBay from a family member of the original recipient because I wanted the coin but was slow to appreciate the importance of the certificates. Obviously those papers are more interesting than most of the coins were.