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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kirkuleez, post: 1477586, member: 36864&quot;]Well it is a little ways away, but I thought you would enjoy.&nbsp; Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) is the final party before Lent.&nbsp; We celebrate it by rolling kegs of beer down the street to the couch we have placed on the corner to catch relatively worthless trinkets, beads, candy, decorated coconuts an my favorite doubloons.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mardi Gras doubloons were first introduced in 1964 by the Krewe of Rex founder, H. Alvin Sharp.&nbsp; These early doubloons were dateless because the Mr. Sharpe didn&#039;t know if the public would accept these tokens.&nbsp; Little did he know that doubloons would become one of Mardi Gras most treasured keepsakes.&nbsp; There are many collectors of doubloons, but they are not expensive by any means.&nbsp; Most can be had for a dollar or less.&nbsp; But the ones made for the Krewe members can be quite expensive due to the precious metals.&nbsp; Most doubloons are made out of aluminum and are dollar sized, but Krewe doubloons are made of bronze, silver and gold and are one ounce. Here are examples of bronze doubloons.&nbsp; These particular ones were made by the Krewe of Isis, an all female Krewe, in 1977 and 1983 and have a colorized obverse.&nbsp; These doubloons are never thrown, but passed to friends of a Krewe member</p><p>[ATTACH]186535.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Other aluminum doubloons are thrown to the general public by the thousands and can be quite nice in design.&nbsp; Here are a few examples.</p><p>[ATTACH]186536.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]186537.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]186538.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]186539.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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