Hi all, I have found a trading partner through ebay, trading Hot Wheels for coins. He has offered these "coins" for trade, but I do not know how much to offer for them (forget the Hot Wheels, what are they worth monetarily) This is his picture and descriptions. Left to Right: 1981 Orange Bowl, 1980 depicting coach Barry Switzer, and 1980 "Miricle in Lincoln" victory over Nebraska. I know it's not a very good pic and a vague description, but it is all I have to work off of. If there is anything else that might help ID/value these pieces, please let me know and I'll ask the source. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
The tokens you are talking about are sports-related exonumia, a fairly obscure branch of numismatics. (Exonumia, in general, relates to money-resembling artifacts - ranging from this type of medallion to monopoly money, with many stops in between.) Values for exonumia related to specific other collecting interests are usually more tied to the other aspect than to the "coin" aspect. In particular the items you are talking about have their primary value as sports collectibles, and unless there is a forum member who is really into sports tokens, I'm sorry to say that you probably won't get a very helpful answer here.
Thanks for the reply Roy. Your answer is good enough for me! It just never hurts to ask, maybe somebody knows more than I do (that is a good possibility!! ) I was thinking of offering a couple bucks each or maybe $5.00 for the three. Would that be out of line? I have no idea what they are worth or what the original purchase price was. I don't want to rip this guy of or offend him with a low-ball offer. I haven't really purchased any exonumia, usually just end up with it somehow, so I don't really have a baseline to go off of.
If there was any rip-off, it occurred when he first bought them. What I mean is, these are sold as mementos, and are usually only "worth" the isue price to the priginalourchaser (unless they are very old or very sought after). Chances are, he will never get his investment back. $5 for all sounds OK to me. P.S. - I bought a set of three German inflation medals minted in 1923 for about $10. I am not sure what they sold for in 1923, but I am pretty sure it was more than the equivalent of $10 today. And, these have age and history behnd them woth a much broader appeal than a college commemorative.
