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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8188177, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1936 Great Lakes Exposition International Nickel Co. Flipper Token</b></p><p>Nickel 25 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432886[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432887[/ATTACH]</p><p>A 1936 Great Lakes Exposition souvenir flipping token (Heads or Tails) or medal that is advertising The International Nickel Company.</p><p>This isn&#039;t the first time they associated with expositions in the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition - Joseph Wharton Medal</b></p><p><b>International Nickel Company</b></p><p>Nickel 33 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432892[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432893[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most everyone who has looked at Exposition medals would have run across HK-323 St Louis Exposition International Nickel Company so-called dollar struck in nickel and there is another variety rarely seen HK-323a struck on brass.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432896[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Joseph Wharton was influential in persuading the United States Mint to issue the first five-cent nickel coins in 1866, using nickel produced from his mines.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432915[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoping to profit from the use of nickel in coins, Wharton in 1863 sold his interest in zinc and started the manufacture of nickel at Camden, New Jersey, taking over a nickel mine and refining works at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Camden plant was located on the east side of 10th Street, adjacent to Cooper Creek, and had several large brick buildings and smokestacks. Wharton renamed the Camden plant the American Nickel Works, and his office there became his center of operations. However, the use of nickel in coinage was temporarily halted, and soon the Camden plant burned. Wharton rebuilt it in 1868 and made excellent profits from producing nickel because it became favored for coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wharton won wide acclaim for his malleable nickel, the first in the world, and also for nickel magnets, and received the Gold Medal at the Paris Exposition of 1878. His factory produced the only nickel in the US and a significant fraction of the world supply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually the surface deposits at the Gap mine were depleted and Wharton was obliged to purchase nickel ore from a mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1951 Canada Aluminum Dollar Size Medal - The Big Nickel - Sudbury</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1432899[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1432900[/ATTACH] </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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