Let's see your exonumia!

Mint medal. Sometimes merchants stamp medals.

 

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D whiz I have the bronze ash tray counterpart to that one no advertising. Have to see if I can find it. And photo it

 

Here's a hand carved Love Token. It's a 1937 Mexican 50 Centavos, picked it up a few months ago at an antique show.

 

I have the ash tray too Circus. Don't recall if there's advertising on it or not.

Bruce

 

I guess this is classified as exonumia. It was issue by an official mint (Vienna), but it is not legal tender. It is a restrike of a 2 Ducat from 1642. It was issued in both silver and gold in 1963 -- I have both but here is my recent pick-up of the Gold version.

 

@brg5658 WoW!!!
Nice restrike! Gold too

 

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That's a beautiful coin brg! Just out of curiosity, have you seen any originals, and if so, are they rare?

Bruce

 

I have never seen an original. I presume they are quite rare/scarce. The restrike was modeled off of an example in the Muenzkabinett in Vienna. Krause lists the original at a value of $6,000 in XF40, with no value for higher grades. Thus my conclusion that they must be quite scarce, and particularly in high grades.

Another cool thing about the gold restrike is that it was struck to the exact specifications of the original in 1642 (same weight, same diameter, and same fineness). In the 5 years I have been looking for one, this example is only the 2nd restrike that I have seen in original as-issued condition. I have also seen a couple others in mounts or otherwise messed with. The gold restrikes were issued in a published mintage of 100,000 pieces on the original issue card, but I get the feeling that many were not issued or have since been melted down since 1963.

 

Yes, I would think the gold restrikes, possibly the silver as well, are quite scarce. Given the high medal value, it seems likely. At $6,000 or more for the originals, that seems to be the case too. Very, very nice coin brg, and thank you for the information. A great addition to your collection.

Bruce

 

Just curious but does anyone know why the knight and horse are disjointed like that?

 

I'm not sure what you mean by "disjointed"....care to explain in a bit more thorough way?

 

Parts of the knight and horse (mostly the knight arms, elbow, legs) look disconnected. What's the reason for that?

 

It's just the way it was designed. Not sure what you're reading in to it beyond that. Remember, the design is from 1642 -- so a bit more "rough" than modern laser engraving and the sorts.

 

Okay. I wasn't being critical of it; just curious why they did it that way.

Edit: I have a Bicentennial medal with a reverse showing the drummers and fife player. It's the same thing with the limbs detached. I never figured out what the reason was for doing it that way.

 

Love the details on that coin. Great artistic style.

 

Couple of fun medals

Hawaiian medal wish was gold and the other one can't read.
These were in a large lot of coins and medals, so why not post them. The Hawaii Souvenir medal is still nice.

 

I've found that a lot of exonumia, and coins for that matter, that come from Hawaii are very well done and easy on the eyes. I even have some wooden nickels from a coin club there that's colorful and nicely printed. You're medal is the same 49ers...Nice!

I have a series of counterstamps that were struck at the Royal Hawaiian Mint as your medal was. They come in denominations of 1, 5, 10 25, 50 Cents, and one dollar. I think they were struck in the early 1990s. I don't have the 50 Cent or Dollar ones though. Interestingly, they were housed in small cloth drawstring bags, which i have for my four examples.

Bruce

 

Hey Bruce that is cool. I also thought the medal was made very well. It's my first medal, coin or token from Hawaii. Thanks, Steve