Let's see your exonumia!

One of the best kept/viewed/selling areas on Ebay is the Civil War Tokens.

I think, as US made coinage is concerned, CWTs have the Greatest Future Upside of anything else collectible.

If you study them like I have, I've built a 14.5 Gb(so far) database of picts of all the varieties. R-10 — R-7 are Unique — 20 or fewer know to still exist. Since 1998, I've collecting the picts of each new specimen per variety that I find posted online to determine their true rarity scale.
Once I have 20 sets + of any variety I get more discerning about which to continue to collect. Those that are the most valuable tend to get added to my data.
R-7 is 21-75 known. I don't need 75+ sets.
The picts will be available some day as a member or pay as you go research site for collectors and dealers to do their research about CWTs they own or want.

 

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Got these 3 today. If anybody knows anything about the Meaney token I'd love to hear it.

 

Here one.
What's it mean

 

Adjutant General's Corps

 

Yup.
O3C was my last MOS department of Army had no Dress brass for O3C Enlisted Aid. They put all Aide De Camp AG MOS /Job titles
Center AG emblem was hand made with 14 kt gold. done as a retirement gift. Mounted on regular issue brass round metal. Some jewelry shop at Ft Mead in PX made all emblem .

 

The guidon from my first unit
A Battery 1/108th FA (Honest John)

 

Nice score!. All I have from my first unit is one bullet taken from my leg. I don't keep it handy. This was re found moving.

 

Went to a dealer today and waded through a rediculous number of Chuck E Cheese tokens, car wash tokens and other assorted junk. I did find some cool stuff. $1 each, how do you think I did?

 

A few more

 

Culling out the Chucky Cheese stuff I'd say you did remarkably well......

 

I know they're not high value but there can't be too many of these things around. I just love anything old and interesting.

 

I think you did very well. My favorites are the French medal ang "god of Luckiness" token.

 

I also think you did quite well, H8. I really like the old George Washington medal.

Bruce

 

This is an interesting counterstamp I bought a couple of weeks ago. Although it's struck on a German States 1-Heller...Frankfurt, I think...it's likely an American stamp. If German issued counterstamps weren't so rare, I might think otherwise. The coin is on a thin copper planchet the size of a U.S. dime. The counterstrikes have misshapen it a little and the area where the date is is covered by one of them.

As for the counterstamp itself. It's very small, about the size you'd expect from a silversmith or even a cutler. It's more likely a silversmith issue, though. It doesn't strike me as a "typical" cutler's style. As much as I've looked, I haven't been able to identify Schonfeld. I'll have to pass the picture around to a few other collectors who might be able to identify it.

Bruce

 

Bruce – the resolution on the PC I am using right now is bad, but are there two “dots” over the “o”? If there is an umlaut (the dots) then it is the German spelling and presumably a German counterstamp. If it were a German immigrant to the US (or elsewhere) they would likely have used the alternate way of writing their name without the umlaut – adding an “e” after the “o”.
So, SCHÖNFELD is the same name as SCHOENFELD.
Of course, an emigrant from Germany could have had the spelling changed (willingly or accidentally), but I do not think (but am not sure) that SCHONFELD (no umlaut) is a typical name in Germany. So, if the is no umlaut then I would be inclined to agree that it is not German.
By the way, I did not realize German counterstamps were uncommon – I have a couple - one on a coin 100 years old or so, and one on a WWII era coin.

 

I can definitely see an umlaut over the "O"!

 

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll have to get the coin out and look at it more closely. I'll put it under my USB scope and attach a picture if it shows anything. Nice catch, my friends.

Bruce

 

Nice one!