Let's see your exonumia!

ver nice, very small production

 

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I don't have it in hand yet

 

I've had this counterstamped tool check for about 15 years, but never thought to post it. It has extra meaning because it's local for me.

The New York Shipbuilding Corp. (N.Y. Ship) in Camden, NJ was founded in 1899 by an engineer named Henry G. Morse. Originally he had planned on building a shipyard on a parcel of land on Staten Island, NY thus the name New York Shipbuilding Corp. However, when a deal for land fell through there he built his yard on the Delaware River in Camden (Across from the city of Philadelphia).

Over the years they constructed hundreds of ships, mostly warships for the U.S. Navy, but also luxury liners, barges, tugs, tenders, etc. During WWII they were the most active shipyard in the world. In the post-war years as naval contracts waned, they fell into financial distress. They finally went bankrupt in 1968 and closed the yard shortly after.

On a personal note, I had an uncle who worked at N.Y. Ship during the war in lieu of military service. He didn't speak much of his time there, but I know he was immensely proud of their contribution to the war effort. It's at this spot on the Camden waterfront that the WWII battleship New Jersey is berthed today, now serving as a floating museum and memorial. This piece represents a very important piece of American history.

Bruce

 

Look like a Zincoln here's a photo of the reverse

 

Pewter

 

That's a nice stadium with some pretty good ball played there, dwhiz. I've been there a few times...better than going to see the Phillies, IMO. Thanks for the pics!

Bruce

 

I enjoy going there also to the Trenton Thunder, Lakewood Blueclaws, Wilmington BlueRocks, and the Reading Phillies. When I'm traveling I always check to see if their is a ball park near by...by the way the Phillies won tonight great ending

 

I forgot to add this photo

 

Baseball is died they claim. But hopefully NOT.
Nice stadium great weather !

 

Couple from my last show a couple weeks ago. Somewhere I have a silver/white metal 6d token to go with the brass 1/2d.

 

Is 1/2 MK. half gallon of milk? I see a really nice die crack on it too running from 12 to 8:00 O'clock.

 

Ah, the good old BF Bridge, dwhiz. Been over it more times than I can count. I "contributed" a lot of toll money to that one.

Bruce

 

Me too LOL

 

Boom! A military trade token - Cunningham lists this one as GR1980 under Germany Unassigned. Difficult to tell where it was used in Germany, other than some Army Post Exchange (PX). Cunningham gave it a value of $3.00 and I generally assume the cheaper tokens are more available, but that is not always true! Glad to see someone else post one.

 

I liked that it was in English but valued in marks. I probably overpaid but I know the dealer who is German and been dealing for a long time and he said he'd never seen one. The bottom line though is that I like it.

 

Eh, you probably paid a fair price. In my time I don't think I've seen one. Like any value guide...well you know...and it was written in 1995.

 

Here's a couple more I picked up.