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Ludwig Christian Lauer's, Play money. 13 mm.

 

Both sides are the same

 

same both sides

 

Netherlands, Amsterdam
1696
Commemorating the suppression of the ‘Undertaker’s Men’s Revolt’
R. Arondeau
AR, 39 mm, 24.77 grams
plain edge

Basic Google-fu and the medal tag gives a pretty scant history. The revolt occurred when the city announced plans to reduce the number of Undertaker’s Men from 300 to 72. Rumors were spread that the poor would not have proper funerals/burials and the poor (and then Sailors joined in which is maybe? why there is a hippocamp drawn chariot) rioted for three days.

Purchased for the cool hippocamp-drawn chariot.

 

This is a port plaque. Cruise ships receive them the first time they visit a port; sometimes there is a ceremony. They are often put on the wall in a corridor on the ship. This is from the Statendam. I was on her last voyage before she was sold to P&O Australia and they had an auction for the port plaques. This was cheap ($21) the ones where some of the passengers live, like Seattle or Victoria BC, went for a lot more. This is St. Malo, France. Note the two medals. Both say on the edge "PICHARD" and "BRONZE", and both edge inscriptions are the same way up on both medals, which leads me to conclude that they are probably blank on the other side, rather than the same medal with obverse and reverse shown.

 

Are pressed coins considered exonumia? The ones on the right I found when I wasn't metal detecting. Some of my favorites are, Cave of the Winds, Wild Donkey Preserve Oatman, AZ, Roswell, NM, Balclutha, SS Jeremiah O'Brien, Sandia Crest. And from the non metal detecting, the home made dragonfly, Marge Simpson, Houston, Texas, Verde Canyon Railroad.

 

They are considered exonumia to me!! Very cool!