Let's see your exonumia!

I think someone may have asked this before but I can't remember...are these engraved or overstruck?

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I sure hope so, I've been looking for awhile now.

 

I gotta post this one for you, dwhiz. This was apparently used as an ID badge for someone named G.A. Bush, a baggage master for the A & GW probably in the 1860s or 1870s.

The American & Great Western Railway or Railroad (both names were used at various times) was organized about 1852 and was finally dissolved in 1880. It's always difficult to get a good history on many railroads because of numerous mergers, name changes, ownership groups, etc. Whoever G.A.Bush was, he must have worked for the railroad for a long time, as the suspension hole in the coin is heavily worn

This piece is interesting because it's both engraved and counterstruck. Only the name is counterstruck, while everything else is beautifully engraved. There's no hint of a date, as the design is completely smoothed off on the obverse. A lot of nice detail on the reverse though.

Bruce

 

Years, ago I dug this one out of a short cut from Adams City high school, D CO

 

Darn I over looked the first sentence, sorry.
They are over struck

 

Thanks for sharing, that's really nice.

 

Excellent one, Bruce.

 

Ran across these Lincoln Cent dies from 1998 from different sellers recently. Couldn't resist. Two came with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Mint that showed the number of strikes at 996,000 for Philadelphia and 167,420 for Denver. The San Francisco die had no documentation other than a tattered newsprint partial article from a Coin World issue from 1998. The article supposedly covered the Mint die sale program that year.

The P and D dies were defaced by grinding the design off totally. The S mint die was defaced by melting the surface, sort of looks like someone touched it with a arc welder.

Philadelphia die #: P8-304404
Denver die #: D8-450440
San Francisco die #: S 1026 P

 

Here is the transit token part of a bulk buy to start the new year!the box they are in is damaged. But the tokens are complete and in great shape. Plus it is a really neat side collect to a transit collection!

Reverse all the same

the set in the box frame

sample of the sports on them

inside the lid

 

Success at the LCS today. Sharing first and research later.

First is easy- simple, high relief 2oz bullion



Not sure about this token - Good Luck



This one I can't find - 100g silver

 

Its for the year of the monkey "Chinese Zodiac - Monkey. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2016 is the year of Monkey (Fire Monkey) starting from February 8, 2016 (called the Lunar Chinese New Year or Chinese Spring Festival) and lasting to January 27, 2017. So, Monkey is the Chinese New Year animal for 2016."

 

I am having a hard time with my white balance, Sorry about the blue pics but, this is one of three I picked up,

 

I'm pretty certain I have the weightlifter token.

 

Here is another pleasant surprise, from a bulk bargain bin buy.


Bronze

 

I picked this up at the Wilmington Coin Club Show

 

I thought you'd like that one, dwhiz.

Bruce

 

Nice, I have one of these also. It looks just like The Dukes Congressional Medal of Honor. Here's a great link related to this Medal http://moharamagazine.com/congress.htm

 

This one is way cool, says the Rhode Island guy.

 

This was a bank in Rhode Island that was chartered by the board of trustees from Rhode Island Hospital. Founded in 1867. In 1998 the name was changed to BankBoston, which is absorbed by Fleet the following year. in 2005, Fleet Financial Group was absorbed by Bank of America. These do come up for sale, but I don't usually see serial numbers as low as this, so I grabbed it!