Let's see your exonumia!

Picked up another combat engineers token: 168th Engineers Battlion, Di An base camp Vietnam, 5.3 grams, 24mm, plated brass, C/A, VN1770c. They were at Normandy and the Ardennes in WWll and Tet during Vietnam. That's all I know about them. They have a pretty long history of activations and deactivations.

 

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OMG - I love these sample slabs!!!

Do you happen to have another one I can get?

Oded

 

Very cool addition! I love the plated brass examples.

Wait...is it aluminum?

 

It's plated brass. I like how they placed the cent sign.

 

I like the font of the 25 also.

 

Sorry no I don't. That one came to me via South Korea.

 

Nice, I got mine last fall, noticed TokenCatalog didn't have pictures, said next time I get it out, I'd take pics. Did tonight and noticed they had your pics there now.

 

Picked up my first Sample Slab with a 2016 dated coin at Th Whitman Expo last weekend.

 

Another new Sample. This one from ANACS. It was produced to commemorate 60th Anniversary of MSNS. Some were given to ANACS submitters at the show, then each MSNS Board Member received one. David Schwager assures me it will be the second edition of his book when released in August.

 

Here's my 1804 Silver Dollar...with a counterstamp no less. Are these 1804s rare by any chance?

Bruce

 

Not rare. There's a thousand bags of that date in a bank vault down in Bolivia. And yours has been defaced with graffiti or worse, they forgot the U. I'll give ya 2X melt?

 

A couple of slat wooden nickels that came in a token lot from about 30 years ago. Just dug it out, so I will try to post some things from it...like these slats...have a couple more to follow..

 

They're a nice set of flats, John. I have a number of them in my collection, all related in some way to numismatics...coin shows, clubs, anniversaries, etc.

Bruce

 

I picked up this CWT from eBay a few days ago, only for the purpose of having a companion piece for an example of obsolete scrip I bought at the recent Baltimore show. I collect almost exclusively NJ obsoletes, but made an exception here because of the tie-in to the CWT. I plan on displaying both together in my currency binder.

D.L. Wing CWTs are relatively common, but in combination with another form of exonumia from the same issuer, the grouping increases in value...and interest.

Wing issued denominations of 1, 2, and 3 cent scrip. All are listed in the Harris reference of NY issues. The 3 cent is an R-3...or was when the book was written many years ago. Although this note looks to be a decent size, it's actually only 2 3/4" x 1 1/2" in size. Very small for this type of material.

Anyway, I thought these were interesting pieces that you would be interested in seeing.

Bruce

 

Nice pieces Bruce. Does "Union Flour" mean they provisioned the Union Army? That would have been some contract with the jillions of hardtack rations.

 

Whoa, great set!

 

I think "Union Flour" was just a slogan showing his support for the Union cause, longnine. However, I wouldn't be surprised if he did supply flour to the government. Apparently he had a very prosperous business and the wherewithal to do so.

The initials "D.L." stood for Daniel Linton (Wing). For whatever reason, he generally listed his name as De Linton Wing. He was born in Stanford, NY on May 10, 1822 and married Rachel Sands in September, 1842. The couple had four or five children.

Although listed as a flour merchant in the 1860 Federal Census records, I know he sold produce as well. He was the proprietor of a well known brand of flour called "Julian Mills." I don't know if it was his private label, or he was just a prominent dealer of it. In any case, Julian Mills had strong sales in the U.S. as well as overseas.

The Union Flour reverse die... #1372...was unique to his token as far as I know.

Bruce