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Another gambling token. This time from Ayutthia or Angkor.

 

Very interesting stuff @lordmarcovan ! Plenty of stuff to keep someone interested in. If it were not for ancient coins and my love of ancient history all I would collect would be exonumia because I find it more interesting than government issued coinage for commerce.

I think you made a good "mistake" @Stork and I think the price you paid was fine. Plenty of detail!

 

A couple of vendors at the local gun shows, try to push pm's as the money of the apocalypse! My two questions have always been.
If the government goes sideways, and things are circling the drain. who will be setting price/value for them?
And who will be protecting you, when the bad guys find out you have PM's? whether you have two or 20,000 T oz you better have somebody you can trust for 24 hr help!
I got em to go with the other copper items including the native copper from the UP of Michigan

 

I've never seen a one gram copper...pretty cool! As for the zombie (or whatever) apocalypse I'm pretty sure the real 'money' will be toilet paper, Motrin, ammo and airplane sized bottles of booze.

 

They're really nice pieces, dwhiz.

Bruce

 

Some interesting history attached to that piece, lordmarcovan. It's too bad that there isn't a name attached to it. That would make for a fun research project. A really interesting example just the same.

Bruce

 

Don't forget good cigars, Stork. I can forget my troubles for an hour or so with a fine Dominican cigar in hand.

Bruce

 

I wasn't to happy with the full slab photo, I had a problem with my LED light.
So today I got the light to work, here's the new photo

 

I really like the Peace dollar, and this "token" (really a medal...) but man, it would look so much better in photos outside the slab!

 

Really neat - the one gram copper.

I'm not trying to get into a debate about end of the world scenarios...but assuming a total collapse of the world governments, very quickly a new one would take it's place. Sure it wouldn't be as big as what we now know - probably very small, like subdivision or neighborhood sized, but people will band together for the common good. Like trying to establish a way to protect themselves and deal with members of the community that have not followed the rules of good living...whatever they may become. Just my two cents.

 

Here's a couple or more new tokens I got within the last month or so. Love the Daniel Carr's up there but I wish he would have made them into quarter size tokens, that would be better for me. That way, I could easily afford one and I wouldn't have to worry about hearing the collectors who yell out, counterfeiter, counterfeiter! lol

 

Here's a couple more. One of these days, I'm gonna get pics of all of my tokens, until then, I hang onto the sellers pics.

 

Your right, But it still makes me laugh when they start about needing the copper so people can make their own wire and pipe fittings. Like I told a young couple if your that worried buy a couple of spools of copper wire and a couple boxes of fittings. Since if you can't melt the copper and cast it for fittings you won't learn after the fact. Like coins or tokens ya just gotta collect what you like.

 

how's this

 

This arrived today. A British version of the World War I Lusitania propaganda medal.

 

Nice!