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More nice additions to your collection Bill. Do you have this collection displayed anywhere?

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More nice additions to your collection Bill. Do you have this collection displayed anywhere?

 

No, it sits in my safe, but I'm working on a new so-called dollar catalog with Jeff Shevlin that will cover the expositions of the west coast. I tend to collect items that I am currently researching and writing about or thinking about writing about. I started this collection when I started our latest publication project. I've also been collecting the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, but I haven't gotten around to posting that set as yet.

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I can see now that I had better start that new wing of my library for Bills books! And a new area for my soon to be added Exonumia Collection, Thanks alot Guys! Just keep posting those cool tokens and informative topics and I will be hooked in no time.

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  • 3 months later...

New additions to the AYPE collection:

 

A button or cuff link.

 

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and an encased 1909 Indian Head cent (a mate for my 1909 VDB Lincoln cent)

 

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The official medals struck by the mint at the exposition were issued in silver, bronze, copper, and gold-plated. The last three are struck on the same base planchets with three different finishes applied. My set was likely assembled by a collector some years ago and then placed in their current box. I speculate that it is not an original set as issued and the jeweler's logo in the box is from a Tronto jeweler and likely dates to the late 1800s. Still, it makes for an impressive presentation. The silver and gold-plated versions of the medal are difficult items to find, the gold-plated perhaps the most difficult.

 

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I'm starting to get serious about adding pieces so a couple more:

 

Hibler & Kappen's 366, an R6 so-called dollar (21 to 75 known):

 

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and a smaller Chief Seattle token (the first I have seen):

 

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I have a few more pieces coming that I will post after they arrive.

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I tend to get hooked when I'm researching and cataloging as reflected in my purchasing patterns.

 

New additions to the collection:

 

HK 366A

 

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and HK 367

 

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and a charm with the same design as on the button pictured above:

 

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The other pair is part of the cataloging effort to move beyond what is currently in the catalogs. Two high grade pieces help understand whether a variety (MANUFACTURES misspelled as MANUFACTURFS) is actually a variety or a different die pair. Turns out is is a different die pair and the die was partially filled creating what appears to be a die error without careful study of a high grade specimen.

 

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Finally, a hanging badge (larger than and somewhat different than the one on the ribbaon above. I've paired it with the design patent that covered the piece:

 

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I've made some more purchases over the past couple of months. Two are fobs made by Mayer & Bros. in Seattle. The encased chamber pot cent is always a favorite. The two hanger badges have so-called dollars attached. The final image is two pieces I really like, the Cloisonné sterling silver fob is a beauty. I don't normally collect the silver spoons, but the one pictured with the gold-plated bowl was too pretty to pass up.

 

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