Let's see your exonumia!

That one's a real beauty, rarity factor aside.

 

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Very nice group, Paddy. I've not seen these before. Do you know about when these particular pieces were issued?

Bruce

 

Hey Bruce .... Here's the counterstamp acquired at the Chattanooga show .... David R. Barton was a major toolmaker. I'm wondering if the larger, partially obliterated counterstamp might be an earlier Barton "blacksmith" style stamp?

 

Thanks for the query @BRandM . I don't know for sure when they were issued - generally the Co-op tokens are undated and I can find nothing on the internet yet that gives any clearer answer. There is a book available from the Co-op at https://www.co-op.ac.uk/bookstore/product/history/co-operative-checks-tickets-tokens-coins/ which would presumably give more idea, but I do not have this yet.

From the history of the co-op it seems the local independent societies faded out after WWII and became part of the a single large organisation, so I would assume these are pre WWII and from their style post 1900, but that is about all I can guess.

I have some of the spares on Ebay at the moment if you want to add them to your collection!

 

Now THAT'S an interesting little number.

 

Just picked these up so idk much about them. I dont recall seeing a 2 & a 1/2 cent good for token previously. So i bought it.

 

Very unusual and interesting selections. You did quite well.

 

I just love bright and shiny things; they bring me joy.

 

Have his one coming from France. Souvenir token of the French Revolution. It was struck 94 years after the Revolution, so I assume these were being sold at the Bastille where the "Storming of the Bastille" started the French Revolution? Have to do some research to learn more on this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Storming_of_the_Bastille

 

Now THAT'S a real find!

 

Picked up these three today:
18th Century token from Bath in England celebrating John Howard FRS who was a famous prison reformer at the time. Note the spelling error: "Goal" should be "Gaol" the English spelling of the American "Jail".



New Zealand 1874 Penny token for George McCaul of Grahamstown. I like the "Advance Thames Goldfields" beneath the picture. I don't like the hole - but I can't get it undone!

Barnstaple Shilling - this is local to me and these are handed out each year to the poor of the town. I have literature that suggests this would have been made between 1985 and 1989 - thereafter they have a current date on them. (1836 refers to the year the town arms were granted.)

 

You ALWAYS come up with such fascinating and unusual items!

 

Picked this token up for a song:



Some nice/interesting information on the piece can be found here.

 

There's a little bit about the French 1883 piece online, but not much. It looks like the big event of the French Bastille Day celebration in 1883 was the dedication of the Monument to the Republic at the Place de la Republique, though I have no doubt there were events all over Paris. Probably a lot of them were punched, that one looks like it circulated with the coinage for some time ...

http://www.lelivrescolaire.fr/#!man...-capitale-republicaine/lecon/document/1232485

 

You were indeed very fortunate to score so big for so little.

By the way, I'm not sure the inscription on the token can be translated quite as literally as it appears to be on the linked description. Which is to say, "Perseverance and wisdom (or possibly more likely "prudence", in this particular instance) shackle luck" might otherwise and perhaps more idiomatically correctly so, especially considering the apparent context here, be instead translated as "Perseverance and prudence capture [i.e., in the sense of "lock in" or "insure"] luck." In other words, one can be assured of a successful outcome without having to appeal to the vagaries of chance and/or hoping for good fortune if one keeps one's shoulder to the wheel and one's eye on the prize, so to speak. Just a thought.

 

Not Exonumia but the shark privy is pretty cool. And, it would seem, unusual in the company of two birds.