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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2061967, member: 32619&quot;]Ok, so it will still be a little later until I post a scan of my red Yakota Air Force Base token that&#039;s square and has the same rotation. But I&#039;ll get around to it soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to toss a couple scans up but no write up for the bases/stations just yet...I&#039;ll save the Murphy Dome Air Force Station ones until later because I found some cool pictures to accompany the tokens and hopefully I can put together something interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one below was from Kotzebue Air Force Station, Alaska. I got it from John Kallman (or is it Kallaman...sorry if I got it wrong, I&#039;ve been up a long time!) who helped contribute to the good book...er...Cunningham&#039;s Military Trade Tokens of the United States.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/kotezebue-ak-5c.2356/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As usual the scan makes it look like junk (even though I get that these may be numismatic junk to some) and increases my desire to learn to photograph. I have four issues from Kotzebue: two in aluminum and two in brass, two five cent and two twenty five cent pieces. The aluminum twenty five cent is in uncirculated condition and I&#039;m quite proud of it. All I need are the ten cent issues in both aluminum and brass and I will have completed the Kotzebue set.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/holloman-afb-nm-10c.2352/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The above issue is from Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo New Mexico. It&#039;s still an active duty base and is right there by White Sands Missile Range. This token was minted in nickel which leads me to believe it&#039;s older. I was watching this one for quite a while (maybe since Korea) but hesitated on pulling the trigger because the seller&#039;s pictures made it look quite poor. I am very pleased with it even though I felt like the seller wanted a little too much. Oh well. It usually seems like when I watch something for a long while and it doesn&#039;t sell when I buy it up after months of watching, another will come for sale and usually cheaper. This was sort of the case here - the day after I purchased it a $1 token came up for sale and cheaper than the ten cent. Well, I bought it outright and am eagerly waiting for it to grace my P.O. box.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s all for now. Murphy Dome will have to wait.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, there were WAY too many Air Force Stations in Alaska, and some of them went nuts with the different issues. Obviously they were trying to make this hard on me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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