Let's see your exonumia!

Here's one of my Tokens I bought awhile back and it's from The National Iron Bank Of Pottstown in Pennsylvania, well used to be in Pennsylvania many years ago. Anyways, tried to do some research and I found this particular bank used to print money= national notes, link below. Anyone here from Pottstown or Pennsylvania and ever hear of this bank? I'm thinking this Token was from the early 1900's but it could have been even sooner as the bank opened in 1886! This Token is the size of a Franklin Half Dollar, beautiful copper with plain edge!

https://www.antiquemoney.com/nation...rom-the-national-iron-bank-of-pottstown-3494/

 

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I met Bill Fivaz in the early 80's.

I live in PA and used to drive tractor trailer for Scout Trucking in nearby Spring City. I can see a connection here to
Arm and Hammer (Baking Soda) which I drove past twice every night.

 

I have a large version of this medal. 75mm.

If interested, it can be found in the link below on a thread I wrote about the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Medal.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1909-hudson-fulton-celebration-medal.350146/

 

Looks like I participated in that older thread, hope I didn't hijack it back then with my stuff. Great BIG Olympic propeller medal you have there. Very nice! I didn't know there were larger versions.

But ... I don't see your medal in that thread. I think you posted the wrong link Chris B?

 

You are correct. I mentioned it during a talk I do on those medals. Did you know the Olympia medal was the last medal made by Whitehead & Hoage? That was the tie in I thought was in the prior thread.

 

I did not know that. If that is the case, the 1898 Olympia - Propeller medal is considerably more recent than it is dated.

1982 George Washington
250th Birthday Medal

Medal is heavy bronze, thick and 2 1/2 inches in diameter.
Mount Vernon on the reverse. I have been there on a wonderful grade school field trip in the 60's.

 

Dolly Madison
First Lady of The United States
Bronze Medal 35mm





Dorothea "Dolley" Dandridge Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for her social graces, which boosted her husband’s popularity as President. In this way, she did much to define the role of the President’s spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson.
Dolley Madison also helped to furnish the newly constructed White House.
When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving the classic portrait of George Washington.
Later, it is said that the portrait saved was a painted copy of the original.
Still, it is an historic painting and hangs in the East Room of the White House today.



In widowhood, she often lived in poverty, partially relieved by the sale of her late husband’s papers.

Her name is spelled "Dolley" but on the medal it is misspelled and reads "Dolly Madison" in error, which is an American bakery brand owned by Hostess Brands. The medal is from a series of which so far, I have only seen one other and that was of Martha Washington in poor condition.
The Statue of Freedom is on the reverse which can be seen atop the dome of The United States Capitol Building.



I personally think that Dolley presents herself very nicely on this medal.
I thought this was a cool find and if you ask me, Dolley was quite the cupcake!

 

1969 Billy The Kid
Lincoln County Centennial
.999 1 oz silver

Billy the Kid





Henry McCarty, also known as William H. Bonney, and known popularly as Billy the Kid, was an American Old West gunfighter who participated in New Mexico's Lincoln County War. He is known to have killed eight men although that count has been greatly exaggerated.

I have been watching for a bronze version of this medal when I happened across this one and was surprised to find this .999 silver 1 ounce medal made in 1969. It was not too much over spot. Back then spot was quite a bit lower than today.



There is no way I could justly write up a condensed biography on this feller.
So there are many websites, history videos and books for anyone to look at.
Most everyone has at least heard of him. Some movies fairly well tell the story while others are almost pure fiction.

 

1911 275th Anniversary of Springfield medal





275th Anniversary of Springfield, Mass.
1636-1911
On the obverse at base of the statue it reads: “1595 Anno Domini 1675 Deacon Samuel Chapin One Of The Founders Of Springfield”.

This rather large silver plated bronze medal is by Whitehead & Hoag. It measures almost 41 mm in diameter.

Samuel Chapin October 8, 1598 – November 11, 1675 was a prominent early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts.
He served the town as selectman, magistrate and deacon. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony there was little separation between the church and government.



"The Puritan" appears on the obverse of this medal and is a bronze statue completed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1887. It became so popular it was reproduced for over 20 other cities, museums, universities, and private collectors around the world, and later became an official symbol of the city of Springfield, emblazoned on its municipal flag.

 

1911 Columbus Day City of New York Medal






1910 COLUMBUS DAY - MASSACHUSETTS Medal




I have not yet found what connection this has to Massachusetts in 1910. It could simply be a medal of celebration of the first Christopher Columbus voyage. When I was a kid, we were taught that it was Columbus who discovered America. We also celebrated October 12th as an important day of the year.
That has always been good enough for me. In recent times, people have protested this, even to the point of removing Columbus Day from the calendar and list of traditional American holidays entirely.

On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, located in the southwestern Spanish province of Huelva with three ships. The larger carrack, the Santa María and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer.
The monarchs forced the citizens of Palos to contribute to the expedition. The Santa María was owned by Juan de la Cosa and captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Niña were piloted by the Pinzón brothers (Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez).
Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile. He restocked provisions and made repairs in Gran Canaria, then departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on 6 September, for what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. At about 2:00 in the morning of 12 October, a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard, a smoothbore cannon used in the early Renaissance in Spain and Italy.
Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.
Columbus called the island (in what is now the Bahamas) San Salvador (meaning "Holy Savior")
The natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and on what one would expect from the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island. (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus's San Salvador)

1892 Christopher Columbus Columbian Exposition
Souvenir Medalet




25 mm

There are numerous busts and styles of Columbus on the front of this medal that have the same reverse. This one is a bit more scarce. It may have been attached to a stick pin by a ring through the hole. All I have seen are holed without a ring or stickpin. It may also be part of a ribbon.

1892 Columbus Washington Lincoln Grant Eglit 89





400th Anniversary of Columbus
Discovery of America

Washington, Lincoln and Grant appear as Father, Savior and Defender referring to the Presidents on the reverse in that order. The red ribbon would have had a rather large sword through it. Perhaps to go on a lapel or ladies hat. I have the ribbon but not the pin.
I have seen another with a hatchet pin. This is Eglit No. 89 but there is also another with a different bust of Columbus with this same reverse cataloged as Eglit No. 88

1892 Columbian Exposition Columbus - Lords Prayer
Small Medalet about the size of a dime.

 

Coming in at 60mm and weighing 90 grams is my . . . .

1861 Belgian Atr Festival Medal engraved by Leopold Wiener featuring The Welcoming Angel obverse and Bull Harvest reverse

 

Teeny tiny medals . . . .

Most with the Lord's Prayer on the reverse and measuring just 13.5mm.

Z

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@TheNickelGuy
Yes, right there of Rt. 422.

 

Yep, I came down Rt 100 and got onto 422. Thanks for catching that post. What a great job that was until Scout went out of business.
(We tend to only remember the good times - hee hee)
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program . . . .

1975 Longines Symphonette
Lewis and Clark
Sterling Silver



The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the Pacific coast. The Corps of Discovery comprised a selected group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it.
The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with local Native American tribes. With maps, sketches, and journals in hand, the expedition returned to St. Louis to report its findings to Jefferson.
Snipped from the
Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition