Let's see your exonumia!

One of my favorites in my collection. Only paid a whopping $11 back in 2004!

 

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Rubber casting mold for Morgan dollar.

 

In 1977 James Ruddy (Photograde) retired from the coin business. However the business name Bowers and Ruddy Galleries remained in place until 1982 when Dave Bowers and Ray Merena formed Bowers and Merena Galleries. Merena was already a business acquaintance of Bowers since 1962 when Merena managed the Empire Coin Co.-- an earlier business of Bowers and Ruddy.

An amusing side note to Ruddy's retirement was his belief that coin collecting was becoming too mercenary. Too mercenary in 1977?

Listen closely and you can hear the omnipotent Kung Fu Master somewhere in the sky: "Oh, we have not even begun upon that journey..."

Bowers and Merena Ad token, copper, M/A, 8.64 grams, 27mm.

 

Here's a Daniel Carr design I wanted for awhile and I finally got one!

 

Here's a token that's a bit different, it's a Shwayder brothers, five brothers who stood on a Samsonite suitcase and I guess they made Samsonite the suitcases to buy back in 1910. Then I have an 1882 counter token that's a copy as it says on the reverse, SF Mint copy I guess, and someone had the dumb idea to make it a love token, sheesh!

https://exhibits.library.du.edu/librariespresents/items/show/3263

 

The owner of the $20 Gold piece must have been well off back then, no?

 

Yeah very few owned a double eagle back then but if they did, they were in the know for sure! Back in them days a double eagle didn't really cost that much, like less than $50!

 

Do you also have any Trolley Museum pressed pennies? This is mine from Maine.
Here also is an excellent website for finding them at places all over the World!!
PennyCollector.com - The official website for elongated pennies, penny books and penny machines

 

@SensibleSal66
no I don't but I've been to Kennebunkport, ME.

 

@fretboard

 

Those Saint Gauden's Tokens are some of his best works for sure! I bought another hat pin, actually it's a stick pin but I'm gonna make it a pendant!

 

Here is something you don't see every day.

A Buffalo mini pan from the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo NY.

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