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Two more from the year of the token and medals!

A trio of advertizing First two are plastic, and the bud one was given out at bars.

I collect mostly general tokens and the more modern ones but anything that catches my fancy, in my LWS's bargain boxes.

A couple new ones from the bargain counter.

Yes even before going to your link, the two hand fulls of his favorite dish came to mind!

All very nice nice, the medals and info. It is always nice when it works out beyond any expectations ones has with a new accusation. All though not an area of interest in collecting for me it still great to see some of the works of the old masters. And the stories that go with them.

Very nice and good for you!

Pretty slick looking!

Very nice, don't have a clue on why they would place a cone on his head is it just on the medallion or did some body do it to the real one two?

very nice, always seems the bad guys and their lawyers find a loophole!

Here are a couple more, Most probably know from his TV adverts for his housing developments. [ )]

Even cleaned it still looks great considering what it is! Very nice

very nice indeed!

Some more A generic token with a stock eagle die, and no cash value A dual purpose token/good luck piece, another stock dies token with the hope that people will keep at least one for a pocket piece. The credit card companies bid to make a little money from when they had an association with NASCAR. A blast from trying to recreate the past, the only money units that were to be accepted by the on site vendors. They came in $1,5,10,20,50's

Some others from the token bins

Well made it by the LCS today and since it has been a couple of weeks his exonumia has been restocked so to speak. The following are Isle of Man 1 crowns coins,but since they are in cased and come with a card and the one comes with a stuffed kitty and shopping bag! Any body that is owned by a cat knows why. all the reverses are the same other than the dates. Here is the other style

1918 to 1920 Here is the token catalog page for your tokens store.http://www.tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?action=DisplayRecords&td_state=North+Dakota&td_city=Wolseth Yes it is worth something. Since they only have a 5,10 and 25¢ listed the 1¢ might be a little scarcer then the others. Yes it is worth something, more to a ND token collector rather a general collector like me. The books for further info are listed at the top of the token catalog page.

Very nice to see some other uses for the wooden coinage, great examples!

Your rediscovery of the way of casting pewter tokens, medallions and coins. Pewter is the preferred metal as it has about the same melting temp as most general solders. With out all the heavy metal/lead side effects. From the carving of the molds out of cuttle bone, to making the molds out of clay. A lot on here are old enough to remember back in the day. When adults didn't care about their children, and let them have chemistry sets with real chemicals in them or even atomic material. and there was a whole side of the isle of chemistry sets of all sizes. One of the standard experiments,was making of a sulfur mold of a nickle, Heating the sulfur it it was liquid and then pouring the material around the coin held in a small tin foil pan. You also can use plaster of paris as a mold. You just have to make sure it is dry all the way through. Gently heating for a while depending on the size of the block. Now for the safety notes. You do understand that handling, your lead coinage leaves trace on your hands along with any of the heavy metals that may be in the alloy of solder you are using. The fumes are also considered an inhalation hazard, so if you don't have a fume hood. You should be doing out side, and keep your nose out of the way. The heavy metals/lead in your body is a cumulative problem, It does flush out over time. And a hanky over your nose doesn't help. Secondly it is law that any articles made or contain lead be clearly marked that they contain lead!

Very interesting, I have booked it for future need. Will Have to keep a better look out for his sig.

He is rare in any color! he was a real hoot on a show called the captains on netflix, and a couple of other shows about trekies on it, and his appearance on the pickers show. I will take any color!

Not from mine but some nice ones. I will have to keep a look out for the Bill Shatner one great stuff some other great ones

This wraps up the last bulk buy of Mardi Gras Tokens

That's what caught my eye on the Halloween nickles the package was on the reverse, and there was enough patina on them when they were run thru the rollers the dark was such a great contrast on them, on some of them you are right the reverse is beter than the obverse.