Let's see your exonumia!

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Detecto92, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. KBBPLL

    KBBPLL Well-Known Member

    From what I can quickly find they still give these out, at least as recently as 2023. Probably depends on how active the nearby Post is. I exemplified those qualities a lot more in high school than I did after a couple years in college!
     
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  3. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I found this, sellers image. 1954 Wabash Railroad Centennial SCD S2.png
     
  4. Heavymetal

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  5. INDE1977

    INDE1977 Well-Known Member

    Yeah it’s my hometown. Grabbed it when I saw it on ebay
     
  6. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

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    Heavymetal Well-Known Member

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  9. longnine009

    longnine009 Darwin has to eat too. Supporter

    Norris Cotton Mills, Cateechee, S.C, Brass, C/A, 6.79 grams, thin planchet, 30mm.

    I posted about this token before with the $1 token. But since it will be slow in here pretty soon I'll regale you again.

    The town Cateechee was named in honor of a legendary Choctaw Indian princess whose real name was Issaqueena. She was captured by the Cherokee and taken to their village in Keowee and given the name Cateechee. One day she found out the Cherokee planned an attack on the Star Fort in the town of 96; so called because it was 96 miles from Keowee.

    Well that wouldn't do because Cateechee had a Bo at the Star Fort--a trader named Allen Francis. Some accounts say a silver smith named David Francis. In any case, she rode 96 miles to warn the fort of the attack.

    Later, when the Cherokee were chasing her down for her transgression, she leaped over a water fall that had 100 ft drop but then landed on some ledge. She hid for awhile until the Cherokee gave up looking for her and left.

    So, she rode 96 miles to warn the fort and risked getting whacked by pissed off Cherokee? All for her Bo? If the legend is real Bo must've been swinging some serious timber. :troll:

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    Sources: Numismatics of South Carolina
    Merchant Trade Tokens by
    Tony Chibbaro
    Newberry Observer Oct. 31, 2015
    Interwebbie

    https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/3006/legend-of-issaqueena
     
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  14. INDE1977

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  15. longnine009

    longnine009 Darwin has to eat too. Supporter

    Yes it does count.
     
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  16. dwhiz

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  18. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    Here's a copper token issued by the Newburg (NY) Coin Club for their show in 1965. It's 29mm.

    Bruce Newburgh 1965 1.jpg Newburgh 1965 2.jpg
     
  19. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    The Chicago Coin Club has issued some of the most interesting exonumia of any club in it's long history. This is an unusual encased stamp. Never saw anything like this before.

    Bruce Chicago CC 2004 (Encased Stamp) 1.JPG Chicago CC 2004 (Encased Stamp) 2.JPG Chicago CC 2004 (Encased StamP) 3.JPG
     
  20. Mr. Numismatist

    Mr. Numismatist Strawberry Token Enthusiast

    German 5 Pfennig play money. Struck around the year 1900 by Conrad Balmberger of Nuremburg, Germany.

    nickel plated zinc
    12.6 mm.
    0.50 grams

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  21. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    Another unusual example of coin club exonumia. This is a plastic encasement issued by the Black Hawk Coin and Stamp Club in 1959. I like these older pieces best of all...pre-1960.

    Bruce Black Hawk Coin & Stamp Club 1959 (1).JPG Black Hawk Coin & Stamp Club 1959 (2).JPG
     
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