Mardi Gras Doubloon thread

1970 Poseidon...

 

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My local coin dealer/friend has a bucket full of various year and colored Doubloon's.

 

Here are 3 that you never know what you find.
I was told that these 3 following were from a country in Africa. Since I have even less interest in collecting foreign coins, then I do US coins. I never bothered to pick one up and look at one.
At the end of the time sorting in the bin I picked one up and looked at one and read the inscription. It said Mardi Gras so I fished the other two out and added them to the pile.






Nice heavy bronze alloy, from the 60's The help asked if I was branching out into world coins?

 

I have had this one since the 1960's:



New Orleans Mardi Gras Land Of Oz 1966 Krewe Token

Obverse: "The Wizard of Oz" characters Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Dorothy, Toto / THE LAND OF OZ / 1966
Reverse: Shield with "K of A" / KREWE OF ALLA / MARDI GRAS / NEW ORLEANS
Aluminum, 39mm, 4.61gm

The "Krewe of Alla" was founded in 1932.
"Alla" is an abbreviation for Algiers, Louisiana.