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Yesterday a clad roosey and Canadian dime. Today Canadian nickel and cent, Clad dime,nickel. 5 memorial cents and a 1920 wheatie.

1920 wheatie! It's been years since I found a wheatie in circulation, much less such an early one. (Of course, the one you found wasn't in circulation, was it?)

Rudolphi has Duvivier as one word upon the obverse, omits the dot after Fac, and has Med. Kluyskens has Duviv., and Med. Duisburg has Du Viv. They all describe the D. V. upon the reverse as at the feet of the seated figure, whereas it is far distant, at the extreme right.

Excellent. Always a thrill when it seems you might have something rare and unusual.

As for Dr. Bourru, you probably know that his name means "uncivilized" or "ornery" in French...

Cool token, Constanius. Does it smell of tobacco?

15th-c. bronze French ship jetton (jeton à la nef):

Last is a bronze jetton of Lazarus Gottleib Lauffer of Nuremberg. Rechenpfennig = counter/jetton

Reproduction of an Aztec calendar, found on many medals and some modern coins (e.g., 10 pesos).

Love it! I don't remember having seen this particular version of a Dauphin jeton by Lauffer.

Beautiful piece, Ian. I love the three "P's" for Peronne.

Interesting. What a rewarding field of exonumia you have chosen --since few people know the rarities of what they have, you get (sometimes!) to snap them up à bas prix. Lovely.

Jeepers Constanius... remind us of the estimated mintages of RRRR tokens?

Ian --your jetons are amazing. This one is a bit more scruffy, but it shows the old Hotel de Ville, which was replaced in the 18th century.

1685 IAC.CHARLOT.ESCer.Sr.DES.LOGES.MAIRE ses armes; à l’exergue 1685 /

CVLTV.SIC.HOSPITE.CLARA “illustre pour son élégance comme pour son

hôte” vue de l’Hôtel de Ville d’Angers

[à partir de Jacques Charlot, le maire fut obligé d’habiter l’Hôtel de Ville]

cuivre, G 1440 F 8463 C 1189

I think that just about nails down that jeton once and for all, Constanius. Thanks again.

Great jeton Ian. Angers is where I spent my sophomore year abroad, so I have collected a few old jetons of the city. I'll post them as soon as I photo them.

(St Maurice's cathedral--the spires on your jeton--has Gregorian chant on Sunday mornings, to go with its old stained glass. Enough to make even a marginal Catholic like myself attend mass!)

I've never seen one of these --pretty nifty! There are lots of Napoleon III 10 and 20 centimes pieces that have been stamped with advertising slogans, or which have had Napoleon transformed into a Prussian with spiked helmet to blame him (rightly so) for the debacle of the 1870 war. But I've never seen Victoria hidden inside one...

Awesome coat and cap, Mr. Sparrow. A true captain.

Also found on the floor almost beneath the machine: Something that didn't look and feel quite like a zincoln, and which proved to be a Spain 2 EuroCent piece.

1560 jeton, which really should be attributed to the very short-lived François II who reigned only this year, pretty much, before shuffling off the mortal coil.

1564 jeton of Charles IX, Chambre des Comptes. I hope you all like the little bit of verdigris in an awkward place on the Janus figure on the obverse...

[later edit: I seem to have missed the previous 3 posts or so, um, sorry... I'll go look for a 1560 now...]

That was terrible, Constanius.

My first thought was --Is she being hit by the moving train? It kind of looks like that.

Very slim pickins here, too. I think more people are scoping out the bins.

omg that man is nekkid.

Every time I see DaVinci's Vitruvian Man I can't help thinking of all the cadavers he flayed to study human musculature. That's real nudity, when you're not even wearing your skin anymore...

That Elizabeth I sixpence is just beautiful, beautiful.

I'm with Homer. A truly awesome collection.

I love it!! A date without a date!!

And that's a very high quality double tournois for XVI century. And a nice cud/die crack, too.

Awesome coins Constanius.

I confess to loving holey coins. It's as though the hole makes the coin more relaxed and familiar, more historical and less precious. I have a number of holed Peace dollars and a few other common-date holed 19th century crowns (French and British) that sometimes I like to carry around in my pocket. None is worth more than $15-$20 or so. I sometimes scope FleaBay for a cheap holey Seated Dollar. Haven't found just what I want yet.