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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!

Interesting article here on H. Alvin Sharpe, who is said to have incented the doubloon as a lightweight "throw" for the crewes. His monogram HAS appears on many of his items, and I noticed it on a few of yours. You did good.

 

http://voices.yahoo.com/a-glimpse-life-h-alvin-sharpe-5406769.html

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

The William Shatner is quite rare in that colour.

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.

Color is off and adjusting it has only made them worse this one is a nickle

Very nice and interesting topic,for medals.

Yes it is due to reflection of my hands holding the phone taking the photos. You don't want to see the color corrections I tried to do as they were worse. I will have to figure something out since this is a new development. Same with some of the Mardi Gras doubloons which are natural aluminum.

Reverse was all most blank

pretty neat, nice selection of stock pennies.

Michigan State numismatic club 50th year nickle





The reverses follow the obverse of the coin. Sometimes they are more interesting than the obverse The Marysville coin club always has interesting pressing.

This is the correct reverse

For the Southerns from yesterday

So you want to do this for $90.00 since you want to have ten dollars change left. Well never going to happen. Wifey wanted a burger, fries small and sunday over the week end didn't get large size and no drinks. came to $17.00 and change. I have to second S I money, Can tell you that a minimum of a 50 ton press and still have to double strike.

Unless you want to hand stamp them after running the planchette thru a rolling mill then using hand stamps to imprint designs.

You can't even get a custom hand stamp made for under $100.00 There are a lot of coiners out there but they have the heavy equipment to make the gamer and fantasy tokens( commonly called coins even though they aren't)

The steel to make the dies will cost more than $100.00

My rolling mill is a small one and an import and still cost over $200.00 10 years ago, My hand stamps on clearance for a dozen in the set were over $30.00.

Here is the best place for fantasy coinage http://www.shirepost.com/wp/

Tom Maringer is the best guy in this business, He does use a Fly press for demo's A new import will cost close to $2,000 and old used one even more as the antiques are sought after. That is his site he can steer you in the correct irection.

But I have a wooden shilling from the same bulk buy.

Now for something different




The words blocked out are face and value,either side of the dollar, don't have a clue as to what is blocked out on the reverse. Probably his street address.

They do commemorate some strange things on the doubloons, do not know if he was famous in NOLA.

I did some googling and found out this. Yes but not only the date he was gored to death, but the name of the bull that did it! I wondered if the bull was more famous. He is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time. And killed in Spain after killing 5 bulls in one day. So I guess the subject matter might be considered some what suspect, in their reasons for inclusions.
The things I have learned from tokens.

This is a blue anodized one, some of the colored ones have a reeded edge, and are thicker than the plain aluminum ones. I have no idea why the difference other than the colored ones ones may be presentation ones.