mmarotta Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Thank you for sharing. Note the American use of "who art" versus the British "which art." Noting also the differences between the Catholic and Protestant versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 ok, it's a little off-topic, but this one would get me to start a collection ... Smaller than a grain of rice Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Noting also the differences between the Catholic and Protestant versions. The next step is to start noting the stylistic similarities and differences. Some are obvious, some will take a little more work. I almost of a large enough sample to start grouping the medals and beginning to identify the different manufacturers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted May 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 I've missed a few tokens recently on Ebay, but I did manage to snag this National Guard Encampment Badge from 1911: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Far from the smallest, although the text is small. It does claim to be the smallest page ever coined. Close, but its not actually the smallest. It is an early use of aluminum (1892) and it is an early California die sinker (C.A. Klinkner). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Occasionally your tokens have addresses on them. Do you ever go to Google Maps and see if the building still exists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Occasionally your tokens have addresses on them. Do you ever go to Google Maps and see if the building still exists? I know the approximate location of the building and it housed several die sinkers in early San Francisco (actually maybe all of them). The building burned in the 1906 earthquake. The area is very different today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted July 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 My latest, from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland. One normally thinks of encased cents, but this is an encased Lord's Prayer token with the exposition logo design on the obverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I spent the last two weeks attending WESTS and the ANA in Sacramento. I bought a new Lord's Prayer token and a Dino-Lite digital microscope. The digital microscope is not my first choice for coin photography, but it is good for die studies and things like making measurements. The lettering here is 0.329mm high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Dino-Lite digital microscope......very impressive though perhaps you should have brought the one with a built in spelling-checker, did you spot the "pure alumnium" or was that an acceptable version of aluminum/aluminium then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I actually bought two of these. The second corrected the spelling and changed the reverse die style, same Lord's Prayer. Kappan notes that the two tokens share the same obverse, but obviously they do not. Aluminum would be the correct spelling, even in San Francisco at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted March 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 The correct spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doktorij Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 have a group of these that are available... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted June 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 My latest acquisition is also part of another collecting interest, early California celebrations. This piece is from the 1909 Portola Exposition in San Francisco, in part intended to stimulate the economy after the 1906 earthquake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 That's a neat medal. It's amazing how many of these types of things were produced and sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Rather risque obverse to pair with the Lord's prayer Very nice Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 My latest acquisition is also part of another collecting interest, early California celebrations. This piece is from the 1909 Portola Exposition in San Francisco, in part intended to stimulate the economy after the 1906 earthquake. I'm sure it stimulated something! ALso, interesting (but not surprising) that the economy still needed stimulation that long afterwards. I guess New Orleans is still recovering too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm sure it stimulated something! ALso, Is that capital "L" in ALso a Freudian slip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted June 9, 2011 Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 Is that capital "L" in ALso a Freudian slip I'm restraining myself from making a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Probably a common SCD but thought i'd add the picture anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Probably a common SCD but thought i'd add the photo anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted June 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Probably a common SCD but thought i'd add the photo anyway... Hibler & Kappen 479, the Protestant version of the SCD. One of the exhibition halls at the fair was devoted to religions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted July 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 My latest. I suspect it dates to 1895 to 1900 or so. and one on a 1909 Orengemen Badge (whoever they are): I have not yet had any luck discovering who the Orengemen might be. It might be the Irish Protestant Orangemen, but I am not certain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted September 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 It has been awhile and then I added three new pieces in one day: The first a William Penn piece from 1893, perhaps a Columbian Exposition piece since 1682 to 1893 does not seem to correspond to a regular celebration date. The medal itself is 14mm. Another 14mm medal, this one for William McKinley. I am guessing it is about 1900. The hole suggests it was worn on a ribbon, either for his campaign, inaugaration, or perhaps his funeral. And the last suspended on a stickpin from the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The Niagara Falls souvenir is 19mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted September 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Some others I forgot to post earlier: 1901 Pan-American Exposition: 1909 St. Louis Centennial: 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration (I like the hanger as well as the medal): 1915 Panama Canal Completion Exposition in San Francisco: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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