EXONUMIA:
MEDALS, TOKENS, Misc, etc:
Last updated: 5/21/06
If you can add any info or values please email
me! I'm always glad to learn more!
MEDALS
TOKENS
TRADE
DOLLARS WOODEN
NICKELS MISCELLANEOUS
NOTGELD
are issued to commemorate special events.
They are usually issued by a non-government group and do not have
a denomination or value on them. They are NOT coins. It is often
difficult to find any information about them. You might also try asking
questions at The Tokens and
Medal Society.
A fantastic 80mm diameter and 8mm (~1/4 inch) thick bronze Vatican
medal of Pope Pius IX (1846-78). Spectacular detail!
Pope
medal (not mine).
A 38 mm medal issued for the 9th British Commonwealth Games held in
Edinburgh,
Scotland in 1970.
9th
Commonwealth Games.
A 38mm Australian
high
relief copper medal to commemorate the 1964 accidental sinking
of the destroyer HMAS Voyager by the carrier Melbourne.
Commemorative
medal.
Universal Exposition in Liege/75 Years Independence, Belgium,
1905, bronze medal - 30 millimeters.<>
Expo
medal.
A copper 36mm high relief WWI commemorative medal
WWI
commemorative medal.
A 62mm 1975 bronze medal
commemorating the bicentennial of the
signing of the Fincastle Resolutions in 1775 in Wythe County, Virginia.
Historical
medal.
10th Texas Numismatic Convention
brass medal - 1968 - featuring the Garza
Mint and the Alamo - 39mm.
Coin show
medal.
U.S. Mint - 38mm
medal made by visitor (me) in lobby printing press ~1976.
U.S. mint
souvenir medal.
are issued for use in arcades, machines,
stores, tolls, fares and other commercial purposes. They are always
issued by a
company or business and sometimes have a denomination or value
on them. They are NOT coins. It is nearly impossible to find any
information about them. If you can add any info please email me! You might
also try asking questions at The
Tokens and Medal Society.
Executive Novelty Distributors Co. same on both
sides.
21mm.
BiMetallic
Tokens
Military PX Pog: Plastic, 40mm
U.S. Military small change in
Mid East.
U.S. State tax tokens:
"Coinlike" tax tokens were
issued by twelve different states
(Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Washington state). Tokens were made of
aluminum, copper, zinc, brass, plastic (in several colors), fiber,
cardboard,
and paper. 1 and 5 mills are the most common denominations, but other
denominations include: 1/5 cent, 1-1/2 mills, and "Tax on 10c or less".
Alabama (1937-8?), Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri
(2), Louisiana:
Oklahoma (3):
A
great tax token site with values and pics,
Another tax token
info site
Misc. U.S. Tokens: New
Bedford, MA, Union St. Railway Co., 1927; Mt.Hope, NJ,
Bridge Div.; Augusta, GA, Coach Co.; Chicago, IL,
Burnham Gum Machine Works; Ortlieb Brewing Co., Munich Beer
Competition, 1954.
Misc. tokens, etc.
A New York transit token of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel
Authority
'Triborough, Bronx Whitestone, Verrazano, Narrows, Brooklyn
Battery, Queens Midtown, Throgs Neck, M'.
A 1979 San Francisco cable car token & a New York
City peep show token.
Commercial
tokens.
*Austria, St. Stephan's Cathedral
in Vienna, 1 Groschen 1950, Aluminum, 27mm.
St.
Stephan's Groschen issued
for a 1 schilling donation to restoration fund.
*France, city of Draguignan, 40th
Anniversary of the Olive Festival? 1 Ecu, Aluminum, 11-7-1993,
32mm.
Olive festival
token.
'One of a long series of tokens
issued in the
late eighties and the nineties in France. This one celebrates the olive
market. The name of the market is traditional and may have nothing to
do with the wares offered. At the time, it was thought that the
European common currency would be called ECU (European currency unit),
which was a clever French ploy to use an old French denomination and
pretend it's English. In the end, the Germans objected, because in
German "ein Ecu" is pronounced almost the same as "eine Kuh", which
means one cow. The common currency became the euro and all the towns
that had issued Ecu could no longer claim they were "using" it before
it was introduced.'
Thanks to
Peter Kraneveld!
*Germany? Zinc 20.5mm Store Token? 1920's?
(also see German NOTGELD)
Wert-Marke.
These are normally known as waiter's checks. The token may also belong
to a restaurant,
as 15 pfennig was the standard price for beer. The most famous
manufacturer of
Wert-marken was L. Christian Lauer in Nürnberg, but there were
several other manufacturers.
They may be circa 1900-1940, except for 1915-1923 when most copper was
used during WWI and
hyper inflation 1922-23 needed higher values. It may be impossible to
trace their origin.
There was a standard for marking wertmarken with 2 or 3 letters. These
tokens were not used only in Germany.
There are many wert marken listed in catalogs by Menzel and
Hasselmann.
Similar one on Graf O'Man's site.
Others: Martin
Purdy's ; Graf O'Man's
; one
in Polish
*Tanah Radja Plantation (Dutch Sumatra):Brass 1879
$1 Token, 25x30mm, 3mm thick.
Plantation store token.
*Argentina, Buenos Aires Subway Token
Subway Token.
*Netherlands Passenger Ship Tokens: Boordgeld
- N.V.
STOOMV. MIJ, AMSTERDAM,.Bronze 5 & 10 cents, 15.5 &
19.5mm.
Passenger ship tokens.
*Turkey bridge token - ~1913,
19.5mm , Brass 20 para token for passage over the Galata Bridge which
links the two parts of Istanbul.
Galata Bridge
Map
Link
History
Link More History
and Pics
*Italian telephone token, 24.5mm, 7906 (June
1979) >
BACKGROUND INFO ; *Italian
game machine or coffee machine token, 28mm.
* 
Public
tokens.
*French Telephone Token, 18mm, 1937,
Nickel.
Telephone
token.
*Israeli Telephone Token,
19mm, 1981, copper-nickel.
Telephone
Token.
Issued by towns or businesses to promote business.
Republic of Manitobah - Not a medal but a Canadian
Trade Dollar - 33mm, nickel.
Trade dollar.
Wooden tokens issued for retail use or just advertising.
Wooden nickels.
6 different types, 29mm.
Pharmacist's Apothecary
scale weights - 1 and 2 scruples, 11-12mm & 17.5mm.
20 grains = 1 scruple (1.295 g)
* 3 scruples = 1 dram (drachm)
* 8 drams = 1 ounce = 480
grains
Scale weights.
A 10mm mini replica of a U.S.
St.Gaudens $20 gold piece.
Mini
replica.
13mm zinc German play money (spielgeld),
circa 1940?
Play money featuring Paul V.
Hindenburg (1847-1934).
A 13mm copper-nickel(?) mini pattern
Switzerland 5 rappen, 1969, A.G. Sigg, Frauenfeld.
Test piece,
demo or souvenir?
Eric Hall tells me he 'has a piece identical
on the front and back, except it is
a 10 rappen, 16 mm, dated 1948 and is made of aluminum. Frauenfeld is a
city in
Switzerland and AG Sigg is a company that specializes in Aluminum
processing, so perhaps this is a test piece in an attempt to promote a
change from copper nickel to aluminum for Swiss coinage? I know of the following variants: 5
Rappen
1970 + 1979 (13 mm), 10 Rappen 1948+1950 + 1970 + 1979 (16 mm), 20
Rappen
1947+1950
+ 1970 + 1979 (16 mm), 1 franc 1954 + 1968 + 1979 (16 mm), 2 francs
1950
+ 1979 (16 mm) all out of aluminum.'
Others below (left to right):
Germany, 2 15mm steel, 1 and 2 spielgeld (play money).
Turkey? 722 (78) ??? holed.
Great Britain, a farthing counter token.
Vatican, 1927, Pius XI Jubilee Year.
Thailand, 2508 (1965), 20.5mm cast temple medal, Buddha /
temple.
Germany, a brass 20mm token, Gut Fur 1/2 Liter Bier /
Convikt Brai Erei Dillingen; Evidently good
for a half liter of beer at a WWII prison camp or brewery
on the Danube about 50 miles northwest of Munich.
Philippines, a 20mm steel token, No Cash Value, PAE -
(Philippines American Embroidery (Co.)) on both sides. It is in the
BASSO
catalog as #314.
Thanks to Mark Clark!
China, Northern Sung dynasty, cash?.
Belgium, a bronze medal, 30mm, Universal Exposition in
Liege, 1905 (top of page).
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