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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 24779712, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;ve always had a hoot with the oddball stuff. I traveled all over the country looking for coins in my many specialties and always ask if they have a unidentifiable box.&nbsp; They often will bring out some strange and exotic stuff that i still can&#039;t identify.&nbsp; Usually they&#039;d sell it pretty cheap. I just put stuff together that looks alike until there&#039;s enough to figure out what it is.&nbsp; I still have hundreds of items that are unclassifiable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorites in this were telephone tokens.&nbsp; I actually collected these for a few years until I knew what they were because one said &quot;good for one telephone call&quot; on it.&nbsp; A lot of collections were born from all of these oddballs. Most aren&#039;t terribly esoteric but belong to categories that are hard to identify unless you have a reference point.&nbsp; Lots of tokens have nothing but a fancy letter or number&nbsp; on both sides.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now days you can get info on most of this stuff online but that sure wasn&#039;t true even 25 years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody really knows what has survived and what hasn&#039;t.&nbsp; My rule of thumb has always been if you don&#039;t see it then it probably doesn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; But I might run into three of the same thing and they might be the last three in the world.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Early play money is tough tough tough.&nbsp; It and tax tokens are among the last frontiers.&nbsp; Of course there are books even on the tax tokens now but they are incomplete, don&#039;t list significant varieties, and don&#039;t give any idea of how tough the Uncs can be.&nbsp; These are effectively US coins but there are only a few hundred collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a big world out there.&nbsp; There are lots of fun and exciting things to collect that are quite scarce or unique but cost almost nothing at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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