It's been coming since 1932! Prosperity Lucky Ship 1932 Good Luck Coin White metal, 30 mm, 10.38 gm Obverse: Woman standing holding cornucopia, rising sun to right PROSPERITY / 1932 / LUCKY COIN Reverse: Sailing ship facing right LUCKY SHIP / SUCCESS TO YOU This token was possibly manufactured to "cheer people up" during the Great Depression of the 1930's. They have been used in a number of films as prop coins, including "Intruder in the Dust" (1949). Here's my hope that we all find our Lucky Ship in the New Year!
Neat piece, WB2. I was unfamiliar with the type. Do you suppose it was overstruck on something else? There looks to be "something going on" under/around the "LUCKY COIN" inscription.
I guess that my Lucky Ship has sprung a leak. The token is struck with coin orientation, like US coins are. The faint letters on the obverse match the letters on the reverse if one rotates the reverse image 180° and flips the image horizontally. Image showing normal obverse and reverse rotated and flipped horizontally. I believe that this is a "brockage" error and that the token obverse was struck by the reverse of another token and was then struck by the correct obverse die. Any comments?
Another one with the same error! Prosperity Lucky Ship 1932 Good Luck Coin - Second one Apparently many were made with this error. These tokens have appeared in several motion pictures including: The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_andyhardycourtship.htm Background to Danger (1943) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_backgroundtodanger.htm Blazing Sixes (1937) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_blazingsixes.htm Bright Leaf (1950) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_brightleaf.htm Christmas in Connecticut (1945) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_christmasconnecticut.htm Intruder in the Dust (1949) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_intruderdust.htm Mr. Soft Touch (1949) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_mrsofttouch.htm The Mark of Zorro (1940) https://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_markofzorro.htm
