Chillicothe, Ohio is a little east of Cincinnati and is the location of the Great Snake Mound and other mound builders earthworks. They were a pre-Columbian people who inhabited the area.
Just wanted to share my excitement...but I've got a batch of tokens headed my way including an unlisted Luke AFB token! Maybe someone should start a thread...It's in the Mail...
Melted coin slag. I purchased this from a man who said it'd been passed down in his family from the 1906 SF fire. The remains of a cash box. The silver melted, but the nickels did not (and neither did the screw). Pretty cool.
Nice silver proof with gold toning around the edge and starting to spread through the leaves which gives it the season of Fall time. around the home .
These two are in the mail. Pictures are courtesy of the eBay seller exocoin however I combined the images. Kotzebue Air Force Station, Alaska. Opened as a radar station in 1958 and essentially deactivated in 1983, though the site still has a radar station, it's no longer manned. I don't have my Cunningham reference with me (currently "deployed" to Spain) - can you guys believe I left home without it? I almost brought them with me. Anyway...I think these round out my brass Kotzebue collection. If I remember correctly there's a five cent, ten cent, twenty five cent, and dollar token...right? If so, I have them all and if not then I need whatever else is listed. I also have two aluminum Kotzebue tokens - a twenty five cent and I think five cent. Those are unlisted so I don't know how many possible types exist in aluminum.
Yes 5, 10, 25, $1.00. The 5c is AK420a. The $1.00 is AK420d in brass and AK420e in aluminum. The $ is the only one shown in brass or aluminum. Nice pickups Jack.
Thanks longnine! So it's only the $ aluminum listed? Pretty sure I have a 25c and I know I have the 5c (scan makes it look awful, in hand it's quite nice): I made a list of all my tokens and I was in a hurry and only put their Cunningham number. I made the list because I'm buying a former Air Force token collectors remaining collection and he asked for a list. Wish I would have taken the extra time and put the denominations in. I called the two unlisted Kotzebue aluminum tokens down as AK420F & AK420H. I think the H is a 25c. It only stands to reason that the 10c exists if there's a 5, 25, and dollar like the brass. That reminds me...I need to update my list! Don't want to get behind!
Makes you feel good when you complete a series, Jack. Congrats and thanks for the history of Kotzebue. How long are you going to be in Spain, Jack? Bruce
I won't be here very long Bruce, heading home in a few weeks. Thanks for the compliment, but I didn't put much effort into the historical write up on Kotzebue, I just wanted to hit the basics of when it was opened and "closed." I'm writing up a slightly more detailed and hopefully entertaining history of my next derelict base and I'm trying to be like those ancient guys and the great posts they put out there. These tokens speak to me on a couple levels and I want to share with the rest of CoinTalk why I'm so enthusiastic about these little guys. Although...I may be shooting myself in the foot...don't want to get too many people interested...because then I have more to bid against. And while I'm at it...who keeps bidding me up on tokens from Alaska?!
I am actually really interested in who else is collecting what I'm after. According to my "guy" dealers are...or were bidding up his tokens for resell. Cunningham wrote his book by State to cater to people who were collecting by state. So is that what others do, collect tokens by state? Because you know, you start bidding on something and it becomes "yours" and then someone else comes around and "takes" it away. Haha! Ah...it's frustrating.
It's not me Jack. I hardly ever bid on domestic issues. And I've been so disgusted with the pickings on ebay I haven't even looked at anything for months now.