Show off your tokens and medals!!

[dean1345]

Bought these two tokens recently and don't know much about them. If you have any knowledge of these particular two chime in.

 

 

 

[BillJones]

The second piece is a Massachusetts Hard Times token. The variety is HTT 155, and it is common. The Robinson company won a medal from the American Institute for their metallic buttons in the fall of 1833, and they issued three varieties of this token to brag about it.

[Schatzy]

Here is mine. It is part of my birth year collection!!

 

[bsshog40]

These are the only medals I started collecting.

[123cents]

Here's a Civil War Token.

 

[ldhair]

I might have a few.

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[conderluva]

Dean,

 

The first piece looks like it is a Middlesex D&H 358 or 358a

If edge milled right \\\\\\\ then it's 358

If milled left /////// then it's 358a.

 

 

 

 

 

[dean1345]

Need some help with this token as well. Thanks Conderluva!

 

[BillJones]

The piece with the ships is a Hard Times token. The variety is Low 64 or HTT-22. It's common.

 

Here is a higher grade example so that you can see some more of the detail.

 

[jackson64]

good thread for these under-appreciated collectibles..As a "thematic" collector of coins/tokens/medals (etc) depicting sailing ships, I have many tokens, so-called $'s and medals in my collection...I thought e1 might like to see the HT-21 as compared to the updated/revised HT-22 ( notice the lack of a jibsail/foresail- along with other small differences).....

 

I'll post some others in a while if the thread stays alive..

[Just Bob]

I have a few:

 

[Yarm]

"Illustrious Predecessor"

 

[Just Bob]

Here is another:

five dollar, bi-metallic, and eight- sided

 

[MarkW]

Through the years family and friends hand off an assortment of stuff to those of us that collect these metal discs. I'm sure you all have bags or boxes or old banks with all sorts of exonumia. I really have no idea where some of these things have come from. I've got transit tokens, parking tokens, bridge tokens, wooden nickels, etc. The only old one I have is this French Chamber of Commerce token good for 50 centimes and dated 1924. I through in the wooden nickel that I picked up at the NENA Conference and show in Worcester, MA in 1974. At some point in its life it broke in two (2-1/2 cents each?) and I glued it back together.

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[Bugmann1974]

MarkW,

 

The French peice you show up above is not a token, That was their circulating coinage at the time.

[ldhair]

[ldhair]

One more.

[ldhair]

Well maybe several more.

[Bugmann1974]

I am not usually into them but I love that particular lucky penny (thumbs u

 

Some favorites from my collection

 

 

 

Does anyone have any info on this German double eagle lookalike?

 

[Bugmann1974]

Here are some better pics of the German token.

 

An Alcoa token from 1934.

 

I really like this MLKjr piece, too bad that when I bought it it was in a PVC flip (probably the one it originally came in.)

[Just Bob]

How about another from the 1850s:

[robec1347]

Only have one, and I'm afraid it's not much to look at.

 

[Just Bob]

... I'm afraid it's not much to look at.

 

 

I have quite a few like that, myself.

 

Here is an interesting one:

[Just Bob]

And another:

 

[Bugmann1974]

Here are a couple that are pre WW2 before a certain good luck symbol was tainted.

 

 

[Just Bob]

Two more:

[jgrinz]

 

[Just Bob]

Jeffeson Davis, US senator from Mississippi, and President of the Confederate States of America

[dean1345]

 

[ldhair]