Question About Unusual Coinage Materials/Post Your Unusual Materials Coins!

Thanks, jbuck! Had to go back and edit my post - forgot to mention that the first is made of bone.

Crescent City Coin Club (New Orleans) 1964 Coinival - leather doubloon, 40 mm ("Coinival" being a play on "Carnival" = Mardi Gras)

That token looks pretty well-struck. For some of those, the lines across the shield don't really come out visibly.

Coin club and related tokens tend to be thoroughly shunned by most people, which I think is a shame. There are a number of nice club tokens that have been made over the years and at least one material (balsa wood) where I think can only be found with coin club tokens.

This is one of my favorite acquisitions. The number of Hood River rubber dollars that are still out there are very few. This might be an original (as opposed to a reprint) but either way, it is still soft as when first issued. That's very rare for a 90-year-old piece of tire rubber -- another one I have is crystallized and brittle.





Another Argentinian 1910 medal. It is made of carob (algarrobo) wood.

These used to not be on the site with all the Argentina medals, but they are now, and four are listed so this might be the last one.

Of course, there's always another stone to be overturned as the medals site shows one of these.




This medal shows Adolfo Carranza, founder of Argentina's National Historical Museum and is made of Quebracho wood. Quebracho is one of the hardest woods that there is.




This unassuming token was issued in New Point Indiana and is made with masonite (particle board).

Very interesting and unusual materials, nautilator!

Delaney's Bar - Across From the County Jail - Good For 25¢ In Trade (Saint Paul, Minnesota). 1.11 g, 26 mm.
An incredibly rare fiber token from the World War II era. Brass tokens such as this were used in pinball machines and other amusement devices, often in support of illicit gambling activities. During the war brass was unavailable so manufacturers attempted to use other materials, but fiber was quite unsuitable for use in mechanical devices and token vending machines.

A lot of fiber tokens date to the WWII era. Conservation of metal and all.

Thailand 1 Satang 1942 - tin