Let's see your exonumia!

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I bought a full set of the collectors car series 2. done by the franklin Mint.
Gonna post one a day till their done. These are brass and all toned nicely. IMO

 

same both sides

 

My wife is Druish!

 

Hi, all on the exonumia thread, first time I am posting here.

Don't know much about exonumia, just happen to have this bronze commemorative medal on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the first Czech President Tomas Masaryk, who was an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during the First World War. He became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War, he began to favor the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded.
50 mm, 46 g, 3mm thickness
Obverse: TOMÁŠ G. MASARYK profile to right; O.Spaniel (Engraver Ottokar Spaniel) below shoulder
Reverse: 18 - 7 III - 50 (March 7, 1850) NA PAMĚT 85. NAROZENIN PRVNÍHO PRESIDENTA REPUBLIKY ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ
19 - 7 III - 35 (March 7, 1935)

Since I did not know what this was - I knew it is not a coin - I had it stored somehow carelessly (don't ask ...) It has some green deposits, don't know if I should clean it and how? If it would be a coin, I wouldn't clean it, but being a medal maybe I can? Pls, any opinions?

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anodized aluminum

 

Your series was a original gas station give away for Sunoco and DX gas stations the giveaways were aluminum in an small envelope. You had to fill up a sheet with slots and then turn it in to get the complete set of "bronze" coins I was lucky in 1968 to work at a station and won both series 1 and series 2. I will have to either find the photo's of the envelopes they came in. the Franklin mint was known for not letting the dies gather dust!
Did you get the cardboard mount too?

 

I got the whole sha bang. The frame, cardboard display, and the instructions, even the plastic gloves and tube. Couldn't pass it up for 15$

 

I'm not sure if you would consider a transit token exonumia (new to all that) but here you go regardless... Baltimore Mass Transit token.

 

short answer yes!

 

I just noticed the man in the moon on the C.

 

Two interesting pick ups @ LCS yesterday from Tombstone Arizona



1 ounce bar ingot

 

Here is my latest 1797 penny. It is counterstamped PIOUS, which I assume is a religious statement.

 

You know, Jeff, from the look of the stamp, I think you may have a merchant token rather than a religious piece. I've seen so many of these old coppers with tradesman's name stamped on them. This one resembles many that I've come across.

Pious could be a surname and the maker's mark applied to his products. Just using the surname wouldn't be unusual. Sometimes they had several individual stamps with other information on them...trade, city, etc. Possibly a cutler or tool maker. You might want to give it a try on Google and see if anything comes up. Thanks for posting it,

Bruce

 

Commemorative round of Dogecoin. MUCH WOW! From somewhere in China, 39mm, 30.1grams, M/A, silver plated steel,(I guess)--it sticks to a magnet like stink on a wino. But that's how it should be. Cryptos, IMO, are just modern-day versions of broken banknotes waiting to happen. It's all too fitting that rounds commemorating them be base metal. Dogecoin I particularly like. They are at least candid about their future-- "To the moon" LOL.





I apologize for the poor quality of the photos. I have a new phone and I'm still trying to figure out how to crop pics.