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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2698520, member: 10461&quot;]<b><font face="Georgia">A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 3)</font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Here are just a few more 10c cherrypicking items from that big sack of tokens and stuff I got a few years ago.&nbsp; This is about it, for the stuff I bothered to image.&nbsp; There was a lot more of it, of course.&nbsp; In fact, I think I <i>still</i> have remnants of that bag around here somewhere.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Lincoln Centennial medal, 1909, by the <i>New York Sunday American</i>.</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This one&#039;s pretty self-explanatory, I guess.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141028-04a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Interesting <b>spiel marke tokens</b>. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Unless that one in the middle is a 1906-D aluminum pattern for a $10 Eagle. Haha.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141028-05.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia">A <b>watch fob from the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1889</b>, which of course was the event for which the Eiffel Tower was built.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">And an interesting <b>WW1 military reunion token from 1931</b>. The watch fob is about 31 mm in diameter, i.e. roughly half-dollar sized.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141028-06a-edit.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141028-06b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>NY World&#039;s Fair medal from 1939</b>. Met Life.&nbsp; Nice n&#039; shiny, too.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141107-01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Some of those ubiquitous little <b>&quot;California Gold&quot; token fantasies</b>, circa mid-20th century (1950-&#039;60-ish?). </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">A few of these were nice and bright with full gilt. Others were more brassy looking.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I&#039;ll bet you brick-and-mortar dealers despise these things, and curse their makers every time somebody brings &quot;Grandma&#039;s treasure&quot; into the shop and forces the dealer to be a dreamkiller.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141109-09.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141109-09b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">A cute, tiny little <b>Washington gilt medalet with the Lord&#039;s Prayer</b> on it.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">These were from some exposition, if I recall correctly. But was it the 1892-93 Columbian Exposition or the 1903 Louisiana Purchase one? I don&#039;t remember.&nbsp; I think the latter.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/141109-10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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