Drusus

You may have found this already but one like this (or may this one) was auctioned for 75 USD in 2008:

297 West Point, NY military token

U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY / (crossed

sword & rifle over cannon, flag)

WEST POINT, N.Y. // (eagle) // br 24

rd MB$75

http://exonumia.home...ion_listing.pdf

Here is another source for it:

http://tokencatalog....d_create_uid=34

These dont have dates though

What I like to tell Young Numismatists is GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN AND DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME !! (and dont compete with me for the coins I want)

I kid (kinda)

Oh yeah, that Claudius II is stunning...

welcome! Do you focus on any type, country, time period or are you like me, a general coin fondler?

Congratulations!! 12 hours a days are brutal! But I must ask...what city do you live in now that makes DC look good

It is, like the man, decadent

One of your coins is Swedish...it is a 1 Ore coin minted under the reign of Gustaf VI Adolf minted between 1952 and 1971 KM820

http://www.corinthstaters.com/new-john.html

Yeah, Arminius is right...on the page above look for Pegesi 353 / BMC Corinth 360 - Trident / KA

The KA is located on either side of the bust unlike yours. If I were you I would post a decent picture of it on Forum Ancient Coins to get an opinion.

There are many many many variations of this type of coin for sure, when I get home tonight I can look further into the actual variation.

While I couldn't offer an authoratative answer, most I have seen look cast to me.

I believe its a stater of Acarnania with a pegasus reverse and head of Athena.

Excellent work bill and lovely coins and medals (and great images).

I do understand that when I go, my collection will eventually be sold so I do keep record, I just can't stand having my collection encased in plastic.

Lovely coin, I don't have one to share (although I do have coins of his grandson and great grandson) though I wish I did...he looks down right jolly.

Makes perfect sense and that is a very cool set. Have you published any information about it on the web?

I agree completely that it shouldn't affect the price. The price for a coin should be the same be it slabbed or not nor do I even buy my coins with a mind to worth on resale as I have never sold a coin and I don't collect for monetary reasons. The fact though is people DO collect for these reasons and selling coins is a business and if a person spends the time and money to get a coin graded and slabbed, they are not eating that expense on resale and then they are probably raising the price past the expense for the added plastic and an opinion from someone who is supposed to be an expert and perceived assurance that all is well. So I just assume that by breaking it out of the slab, you have lost a bit of the price you paid for it when it was slabbed.

You dont know what messy is if you call that messy I would now be ashamed to show my work space

Just out of curiosity, why do you crack these open? Do you think the value goes down for the coin compared to what you paid for it? I am not a fan of slabs in any way and only have bought a few coins that were in them (only because the coin was so nice, not because of the fact it was slabbed) but I felt that once they were slabbed, to break them out would cut some of the value I paid for them...I assume the price was a bit higher slabbed than not?

Like this coin:

It came to me slabbed and I kept it that way because the coin wasn't cheap and I assume some of that price was the slab and grade (not to mention not wanting to harm the coin trying to break it out) so I have never actually laid hands on this coin.

There is quite a difference in artistic quality between those two

Its a nicer type of transportation token with an interesting design for sure.

I love these as well regardless of the side they take. There is a grand old tradition of expressing political rhetoric on independently minted coins/medals/tokens and its cool to see two separated by so many years but saying basicly the same thing.

They dont get much more politically charged (and bitter) than this one:

This token/medal has a lot to say, the full break down and close ups can be seen here:

http://www.cachecoins.org/bielefeld02.htm

I would part with a few examples gratis + shipping...these are all in pewter (about the size of a nickel but thinner). Pewter is all I have at the moment but I have some copper coming in very soon. If you can wait I'll send you the Hard Times Token in copper as that is what I wanted to mint it in. I wanted to mint a few examples just to see how they looked.

I would like to mint the other in silver but that's not cheap.

I was going through my coins and tokens and found this one, forgot where I even got it. I guess I procrastinated and someone beat me to it.

cool little piece of propaganda After all, isnt that what all coins are? This one just a BIT more partisan.

The fifth one

Thanks. I have slowed down on my collecting and decided I wanted to concentrate on quality over quantity, take my time and only get the coins I want even if I pay more or have to wait until the right one comes along. In the last few years I have only purchase a handfull of new coins (and a good amount of Notgeld which are, in general, cheaper). 99 out of 100 of these coins are in pretty poor shape with flattened parts of faces and the like, but this one was in pretty good shape, good detail all around, and it was from a very reputatble dealer so I went for it.

This is a coin type I have been wanting for a very long time. I love the stylized way the figures are rendered. These are copies of Byzantine gold coins but I like them like these in silver.

Giovanni Soranzo as Doge (Duke) (1312-1328)

Grosso Venice Mint (in the style of earlier Byzantine gold Histamenons)

IO SVPANTIO S M VENETI (Giovanni Soranzo Saint Mark Venice)

St. Mark and the Doge standing facing holding flag between them DVX (Duke) in Center

IC | XC (Greek abbreviation meaning Jesus Christ)

Christ enthroned facing holding book of gospels