Let's see your exonumia!

Going to the Strasburg Railroad has been a family tradition for a few years. My 8 year old grandson got me this for Christmas

 

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What a wonderful gift!

 

It's been a while since I posted any of my exonumia collection here so...without further adieu:

Marble Mountain Air Facility, Vietnam
VN2950b
The "S" denotes staff, possibly referencing the Marine's upper enlisted tier, staff NCOs, E-6 and above. MMAF was occupied by the Marines 26 Aug 65 and turned over to the Army on 1 June 72. I don't like this picture very much, it's blurry.

Danang Air Base, Vietnam
VN1370c


Yokota AB, Japan
JP6240a
I might reshoot this token...looks a little blurry as well.

I got a new, fancy camera for Christmas and the instructions are worthless..unless you don't know what the button that says "On/Off" does. There's a bit of a learning curve with it but I'm excited to unleash it's potential. I should have looked at the pictures after I took them but I didn't.

 

Good to see some new stuff again, Jack. Congrats on the new camera. It takes a bit of time to figure them out. The instructions with my latest camera were useless too, so I know how you feel.

Bruce

 

I actually picked up quite a few tokens but haven't posted them because I'm not happy with the pictures...but I might just do it anyway.

 

@Jwt708
Yea bring back some good times and bad times. _hit happens. Not your fault. Nice tokens script

 

I wish I had more tokens from Vietnam, I only have one more. I'll have to get a photo.

 

Got four of these from my father-in-law who's trying to clear out in anticipation of house downsizing. Not that these were taking up much space but they were in a 10 pound bronze ashtray with some more casino tokens.

 

I was I knew you 1977 when I threw out all Vietnam script other items. They would smell or I could smell them Dad told me how to vanish myself for nam that was a very bad year.
Yea that's history.

 

I got these two four years ago:

I've got a serving tray embedded with foreign coins and an ashtray made of Mexican coins. I'll post pictures of them when I find them.

 

My latest...

 

Really nice. I have never seen one like it.

 

Thanks. They were sold in three varieties. A 3", a 1 1/2", and 1 1/2" with a hanging loop. The hanging loop one is seen with a red/white/blue ribbon or a leather pocket watch strap.

 

1968 by jello posted Dec 26, 2014 at 11:00 AM

This and a very few photos is all I've been able to keep. So things just don't have dwell on you move on.

 

That would have been awesome!

You had to do what you had to do. I've seen a couple photos from you back then and actually think of them often and that war.

I only have one other Vietnam token (I really need to fix this!) and here it is:


Danang AB, Vietnam
VN1250a (18mm)
I think this token may have the bronze disease. The spot to the left of the obverse diamond with angular S was much brighter in a previous picture. I picked at it and now it's much duller. I need a bottle of Verdi-Care.

I was about to say "I think I finally coaxed a decent image from my new camera" but I'm still not happy. At least I now know how to do some things with it. Thanks Sony for the great manual.

 

@Jtw708
I would put in distill water and see. If clear up then use something.

 

Thanks. I'll give that a try. Now to find distilled water in the UK...

 

@Jtw708
Easy boil water 20 minutes to remove all additives. That's distilled water. But Google it first
My time could be off.