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It appears there are a couple big dogs in the business, Like Osborne coinage. At one time Cincinnati had more coining firms than any other city in America. They were and refereed to as trade checks, An old line company is C.C. Wright of Cinci. they are using the same equipment,die punches,and stock dies that they have used for over 70 years this was published in the late 60's. The other part of the reason can be that the companies that are were supplying the trade checks, would get them form another company that made them. Like A.E. Schmidt which was a billard table manufacturer but sold trade checks. They were made by S.G. Adams Stamp and stencil Co. out of St. Louis. Some of the die's are so old that they will only strike them in aluminum now, as they will crack if struck into brass! Scovill manufacturing Co of Waterbury Ct made tokens for about 125 years giving it up in the 50's there have been dozens of companies over the last 150 years making tokens. Some were button makers that made tokens as a side line. Grant money meters inc a turnstile maker, along with Meyer & Wenthe So you see It is hard for even the American Vecturist Association doesn't have a good idea of who made what

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Guess this is one of those things that you had to be there. As near as I can figure out. It was a TV program in NOLA at the time. Plagued with attendance problems, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition has the distinction of being the only exposition to declare bankruptcy during its run. I guess being in the parade and the throws didn't help attendance

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As we know when two people stop to watch a parade, you know the politico's showing up can't be far behind![]

The used copies are being humped for gold prices, CATALOGUE of US and CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION TOKENS: Vol 1: The LISTING, Atwood/Coffee. Major varieties listed, with price guide. 5th edition. The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens. Hard-Bound 1997, 870p. Detailed descriptions, Historical Notes, Standard Reference, Rarity Guide, Cash Price: $24.95 Retail Price: $29.95 CATALOGUE of US and CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION TOKENS: Vol 1: The LISTING, Atwood/Coffee. Major varieties listed, with price guide. 6th edition. The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens. Hard-Bound 2007, 870p. Detailed descriptions, Historical Notes, Standard Reference, Rarity Guide, Cash Price: $34.95 Retail Price: $39.95 CATALOGUE of US and CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION TOKENS: Vol 1: The LISTING, Atwood/Coffee. Major varieties listed, with price guide. 7th edition. The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens. Revised price guide based on actual sales and auctions. New 8.5x11-inch size. Hard-Bound 2016, 900p. Detailed descriptions, Historical Notes, Standard Reference, Rarity Guide, Cash Price: $59.99 Retail Price: $69.99 SUPPLEMENT to US & CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION TOKENS, Coffee. 3rd ed. update, with new issues, recent discoveries, new prices. Hard-Bound 1977, 243p. Detailed descriptions, Standard Reference, Rarity Guide, Cash Price: $4.95 Retail Price: $8.00 TRANSPORTATION TOKENS: Vol 2: A History and Encyclopedia, Atwood/Coffee. Includes quantities, date struck, historical research, more. The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens. Hard-Bound 1984, 776p. Cash Price: $30.00 Retail Price: $38.00 TRANSPORTATION TOKENS: Vol 3: Die Varieties Encyclopedia, Coffee. Lists all major, minor die varieties, w/thousands of photos. The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens. Loose-leaf edition. The Hardbound edition is out of print. Loose-leaf 1986, 960p. Detailed descriptions, Cash Price: $49.95 Retail Price: $61.00 http://www.exonumia.com/books.htm is the best for new copies. And he does sell on Amazon. Rich is a great guy to deal with!

Both of them are very nicely done, Don't know if I will be buying the 3rd volume mostly because it is on errors, die variations etc. Don't think I have the patience for looking thru a microscope for them.

volume 2 of the three books Atwood/Coffee catalogue

Reverse same on both

These are from the Santa Maria Area Transit in Ca. wooden nickles changed year on them obverse the same,just different colors

A couple of interesting throws this one from a river gate mess in downtown NOLA. Casino's,money and politico's interesting reading on google The next one is also interesting on how it got started and their name."One of the group was a part owner of the Imperial Laundry. He suggested they make use of some convict suits from the Atmore Prison Farm that had just been washed and cleaned. There were no hats or masks with the suits, so they purchased Chinese coolie hats and masks from a street vendor and proceeded to parade on foot ..." Mobile ALA

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The Masonic art bar, blank reverse More criminals on art bars, granted they are political operatives so it goes with out say that they are criminal! blank reverse

school pass token No luck so far in finding were these are from. Since the search engines read it as Data

Couple from the Navy, Don't know if they had a float or just passed them out. Haven't seen any for the other branches of the service yet.