Let's see your exonumia!

These weren't issued by the scouts they are advertising tokens given out with the purchase of boy scouts official shoes and boots.
Made by the Excelsior shoe company! you do see these listed on I'm an idiot bay as bot scout tokens but they aren't. AS with a lot of items offered on the bay the sellers don't have a clue.

 

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I think there are quite a few different varieties of these.
Your second one may be TC# 341971.
http://tokencatalog.com/index.php

 

This should clear up the facts.
Excelsior Shoe Co. Tokens
Good Luck Tokens with a Rider on Horseback


As a boy scout leader and coin collector, I have done a great deal of research to share with the you the many "Shoe for Boys" tokens issued by the Excelsior shoe company.









Shoe for Boys
The Excelsior Shoe Company took advantage of the opportunity to associate their advertising with the new Boy Scout movement that began in 1910. They created a "Boy Scout" shoe and tokens issued between July 1910 and January 1914. The tokens were manufactured by Schwaab Stamp & Seal Company of Milwaukee, and the Wisconsin and Whitehead & Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey.

The wording on the tokens, "Boy Scouts" & "Medal" were brand names of shoes made by Excelsior. Tokens were usually bronze or brass and some were zinc. Sterling silver tokens were also made in some varieties for Scoutmasters that had his entire troop buy Excelsior shoes. From the research I have done, I believe the Belle Meade Shoe Co. reverse was made around 1916.

There are also tokens that show a hiker and uses the words "Boy Scout." One is an advertisment for the Peters Shoe Co. The other (from Tim Mahle) shows the same hiker but has no advertisement on it.

Here is a scout web site that deals in official scout coins and the shoe company scout tokens https://www.sageventure.com/coins/tokens.html

 

I would like to add that this is not a swastika this is a peace symbol the Germans stole and turned it into what you think it represents today.

 

I noticed that the two Drachms says Phila & N.Y. and one say's N.Y. & Phila.

 

@Circus can a wooden nickel be roughly dated by the buffalo design?

 

or do you go solely on the print?

 

Have no idea1 never worried much about the date they were printed. Repost it in the wooden nickle thread https://www.cointalk.com/threads/woodie-penny.326549/

 

Nobel Prize gold medal in fine gold 999.9 awarded to then German Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1971

 

Found this beauty anong my elongated coins. I did try to clean it up.
Trying to figure out what was it struck on, perhaps a 1943 cent?
or a clad dime?

 

It has the look of some of the items that were in a fire, could have been in a flip when it happened.
When working with copper in jewelry the cleaning solution(pickle) that is is used is sodium bisulfate (swimming pool pH raising chemical) works best when heated BUT DO NOT BOIL! as it will generate dangerous fumes use only in a glass container and don't use any steel tweezers. Since the steel will react with the solution and flash copper plate the item in it. To neutralize the solution and baking soda, then flush down the pipes. That might help clean it up more.

 

Does anyone know what this is? AVA 1011's personal calling card or maybe a presentation 1972 makes it pretty old with one sweet horse drawn rolled on it?

 

Personal calling card,AVA 1011 is his membership number American Vecturist Association (or AVA) is an organization of transportation token collectors in the United States and Canada, as well as worldwide. https://vecturist.com/

 

I forgot I had these. I was checking out some of the boxes that 2 x2s are stored in.
This one just had a bunch of miscellaneous stuff.

 

The only elongated coin I have.

 

Two nice tokens, dwhiz. Do you know if the SG piece was minted by the Patrick Mint? They made tons of tokens like this for private companies and individuals in the 1970's. It looks very much like one of theirs. They offered a generic obverse mostly of old US coin designs and a custom reverse tailored to each customer's needs.

Bruce

 

One of the things I've been doing is cleaning out drawers.
I find this pocket watch that I purchased about 1991. I even had a battery to make it run but no chain to wear it. I checked out eBay and bought this beauty.
With a 1/2 oz. copper Indian

 

I graduated high school this year. Really, I can't believe I still have it. I remember the night I got this token to play putt-putt. Never even made it to the first hole. You had to give up the token in exchange for a putter.