Let's see your exonumia!

There was a water park and fun center in the town of Windsor Northern Cali. back in the day. I wonder if it is from there.

 

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It is from the horse tracks, slot machines in Windsor ONT. Canada

 

I posted these some years ago -

 

Ooh ooh I have some! A froggy: and my favorite, an elephant:

 

Here's an extremely rare 1850 California Two Bears Dancing Token. There are very few of these left! Don Kagin will auction one in MS64 starting at $3000 in a few days . This is definitely the most expensive token I ever bought. Price is at the bottom of the link. ~Cheers!!

https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/...est-coast-coin-auction-lots-you-need-to-know/

 

Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who “fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States.” This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent.

 

With that said:

 

A silver round of the Texas commemorative--by far my personal favorite. Garden State Mint, C/A, 39mm, 1 troy oz. .999 silver.

Note: What appears to be spotting on the eagle side at 7 was residue on the capsule from a sticker.

 

Another Cal-Neva token:


Club Cal-Neva Reno and Cal-Neva Lodge Lake Tahoe token

 

1840 Canada Nova Scotia one penny token

 

I'm always happy to add another silversmith counterstamp to my collection. This week, I snagged a DIMOND c/s on eBay. It's a "discovery" piece, unlisted by Brunk or Rulau. While it's not pretty to look at, the price was right. I was able to find a goodly amount of historical information about the issuer, Isaac Marquand Dimond.



The last pic is the same hallmark as appears on one of Dimond's spoons. Below are my database notes on this piece. Pardon the cap letters which I use therein ...

 

Great piece, great story, Bill. I don't think the condition is particularly important, as it may be the only example extant...maybe the only one ever struck. Do you have any thoughts on the other counterstamps on the coin?

Bruce

 

"IPLO" stands for the Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation. It was a very violent Nationalist paramilitary founded in Northern Ireland in 1986. It was made up of disaffected members of another group called INLA whose demise began after the death of three members, including prison commander Patsy O'Hara, during the Maze Prison hunger strike in 1981.

Even by standards of violence employed by all paramilitaries of the time, IPLO was beyond the pale. After a number of attacks on fellow Nationalists, and their involvement in the drug trade, their fate was sealed. Drug dealing was absolutely forbidden in the movement. The group was forcibly disbanded by the powerful IRA through assassination, beatings, and intimidation. By 1992 they were defunct. There areas of operation had been primarily in Belfast, Newry, Derry, and Armagh.

These stamps are quite rare, but I did acquire four examples from a long time source of mine in Belfast. Along with the coins, he relayed a sad story to me concerning his family and IPLO. In 1990 his Uncle was shot to death by IPLO gunmen who entered his home on Tate's Ave in Belfast and killed him while he slept on his couch. As generally is the case with these attacks, retaliation was swift. Later the same day, two Loyalist UFF members shot a Catholic man to death in his driveway while returning home from a party in Lisburn. The cycle of violence never ends, it seems.

Bruce

 

I have one of these in my collection, but I couldn’t pass up this one.

 

Couldn’t pass these up either.