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 Posted 11/04/2010  03:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add rh13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
My grandfather,watchsmith coin collector,gave me these on his death bed,,,1975,,





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 Posted 11/04/2010  04:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They were popular souvenirs back in the 1970s and 1980s. I bought a '72-S cent, a gold double-eagle, and an Indian Head cent from a souvenir booth at Honolulu airport transiting through there in 1983. Paid $1 each for them, I think. They were made of cast aluminium, with a plating to give it the "proper" colour. I recall the shop had them labelled as "drink coasters".
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 Posted 12/23/2010  2:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add General Tso to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think these are making a come back. I've seen displays at various businesses this year. There were about twelve different ones. I even saw a display at an amusement park in mass. this summer. They were asking $10 each.
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 Posted 12/23/2010  11:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rh13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow,,It would mean the world to me to make a set of however many I can find,,thanks so much,,I am on a search,now,,If you find a link or run across any please let me know,,your friend..rh13
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 Posted 03/01/2011  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Uhhhh to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
We have one of these that looks like a wheatie. They sell them a lot of times in shops in tourist towns. And like Sap said.. it is about the size of a drink coaster.
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