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I'm not a big collector of challenge coins, but I have for years been searching to replace my lost CG coin from the old days.
I found a couple of Challenge coins from the unit I served in and had to have them.




To make it complete (to me anyway) I would love to find the CG coin though, does anyone know if thats possible?
And, do they make batallion coins as well?
The batallion I was in disbanned in 2001.

 

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Very Nice. Thank you for your service.

 

You've been to the Assoc store, You can always try thier facebook page with a message about what you are looking for. Or if their web site has some form of message exchange. That might be the fastest way
You also can hit the items wanted forums on here and other forums

 

Not mine (wish it was!!) but I saw this posted in a Horror Comics Fan forum and had to post it

 

He is a pic of my copy of the throw along with the obverse


They are common in the secondary Mardis Gras throw market

 

Since i didn't pick up much at the Baltimore show, I found this one on eBay and got it for a decent price. It's now known as my "Baltimore Coin."

The 1827 Large Cent is worn with a nice even toning to it. The stamp is from a Webster, MA. machinist and blacksmith named Nathan Cody c1820s / 1840s., possibly a few years later. This would likely be the stamp he used in his machining business, as blacksmith marks generally have a different look to them. I would guess it's from the 1830s.

Interestingly, Cody was related to "Wild Bill" Cody in some way. About 10 examples of the counterstamp have been found over the years. Though a couple of small dings in the stamp, it's still easily readable, and a nice example.

Bruce

 

Hi Bruce .... That's a fine pick-up you made!

I have one on an 1816 cent that cost me $8. I found that Cody was listed in The Massachusetts Register for 1852 - the year he died - as a state representative from Webster. I suspect that his metal working talents may have exceeded those of the average blacksmith. Perhaps, he did some tinsmithing or even tried his hand with silver? To my knowledge, the latest dated host coin is 1851.

Not pretty, but here's my specimen ...

 

Thought this one was really interesting.
The Only Unique Monetary Ingot or Coin of the California Gold Rush
http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/507033

 

Happy Thanksgiving to any and all members that celebrate

 

I was given a copy of "Rennick's Australian and New Zealand Token Values" (1st edition, 2012), which on p. 68 says this one was minted by Heaton & Sons along with a 1d. They are priced from AU$20 on up, which is the minimum listing price.

These tokens generally were issued because of a shortage of small change in Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. After the British converted from copper to bronze in 1860, they seem to have made more of an effort to send quantities of small change to the Antipodes and the tokens were demonetized between 1863 and 1881, depending on which colony.

The reverse is one of a number of stock reverses based on the British copper coinage.

 

Very cool I actually just watched Frankenstein last night (had never seen the original all the way through) AND it turns out that yesterday (by some divine coincidence) was Boris Karloff's birthday so I went on ebay and found this hobo Coin for my collection

 

I'm going to mail my order in for these. 2017 OHNS Hobo Tokens.

 

The Ceylon one is a 1954 Geoffrey Hearn silver medal, and the others are all 1984 Richard Lobel medals. All five have the Edward VIII design on the obverse. The top two I posted on here before, whereas the bottom three I acquired this month.



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I believe this Great Britain one is by Richard Lobel, but I'm not entirely sure. It has a plain edge, it's non-magnetic, and weighs like silver. The seller sold this as being minted by INA, but that one looks different in Krause's Unusual World Coins catalog.

 

BHM 2185, Reopening of the Royal Exchange by W. Wyon. Great detail but reverse rim bump kept it from grading.

 

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