Let's see your exonumia!

Ah, but check the "Edited to add:" @49ers

 

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Here is one for all you trekkies


on a quarter

And another interesting elongated on a US .02 cent piece.


I love the clear imprint on the reverse of the coin show info.

 

This Star Trek fan is pleased.

 

The color in the pic is pretty accurate, Jack. It's toned over the years from "mint" red to a nice dark, rich color.

Bruce

 

Great token, Jack, and a wonderful story to go with it. That's part of what makes collecting fun.

Bruce

 

That's a very nice button, dwhiz. Do you know what the coat-of-arms stands for?

Bruce

 

http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=State.Pennsylvania

there is a book on buttons
A Record of American Uniform And Historical Buttons – by Alphaeus Albert

 

Some Cannon Air Force Base, NM tokens for @gronnh20 These are the only pictures I have with me but the aluminum ones, I've completed the set. There's a 5c, 10c, 25c, and 50c denomination.

 

Another version of a magic production coin about the size of a half dollar.


The half dollar sized mysto magic coin

 

Wicked cool magic coins I love them.

 

Any clue what or how this one was used?

 

1930 Author P. Felsman magic coin
Chicago

 

http://www.paulcourville.com/magic/MT1.html

 

http://www.goodtricks.net/coin-palm.html

 

Yep some as in the link were used as give a ways to people that helped on stage or during the act. back in the day the stage magi were notoriously Cheap sob's. Not to mention the advertising value minted on them. Even into recent times some magi have them made up and pass them out.
They were sold by the major magic companies Abbot's, Adams of novelty fame, the larger mail order magic dealers of the day and of course the dealers in the major cities mostly sold some and gave them to the coin magi's and close up guys and gals since they would often give them to the person at whose table they are preforming at.

But the major use was in preforming any coin stage trick that required large amounts of coins. For the visual and sound effects, getting back to them being cheap sob's real money would disappear on stage while it was waiting to be used in the performance. So they would use these type of faux coins they sound good hitting the metal buckets, when doing the shower of silver, cascade of dollars or halves, any multiple coin production tricks. Of course now a day the bucket has been replaced with a paper bag and only one coin is needed and as a bonus. You blow up the bag and pop it at the end to vanish the bag of silver.

The same basic trick has had a thousand names since the first time it was done, on the temple steps. By the way every time a coin hits the bag you have the kids count them out loud. Depending how well you can hold the group I have seen somebody do around 50 coins.

 

wow!

Very cool.

 

Interesting cool story.