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

Ginzkey owned a carpet factory and used these notgeld in 1917 as money. They come in denominations of 5, 10, 25, and 50. This is one of the very few tokens I've ever seen made solely from glass.





Medal issued 1950 commemorating the 100th death anniversary of Juan Martin de Pueyrredon. The body of this medal is nacre, the trimmings are brass, and the image of him is on a paper insert.




Kale Koppen Kamp was a Japanese WWII prison camp in Java, where they used these uniface tokens made out of bamboo. There is at least one more that is good for a cup of coffee.




Some Thai tin coins: a 1/8 and 1/16 fuang from 1862, and one of the large flower moneys.





Belgium 50c coin issued as WWI money in 1915. This series is currently the only one I know of that's made with brass-plated iron, though it's highly likely there are others.

Not as unusual as all of the incredible examples so far, but not materials commonly used here in the US.
Missouri sales tax receipts and a token. Cardboard (1935 - 1937), zinc (1937 - 1942), and plastic (1943 - 1954).

Very nice!

I love the zinc "receipt" with the state map! I wonder what the other side looks like.

So, I got this yesterday.

It's a bone gambling token, which are pretty common, but this one was used in the Dexter Saloon in Nome, Alaska aka the one that Wyatt Earp founded.

Also have a number of other things I realized I haven't pictured yet.


Akita Japan 100 mon coins from 1862. These are the first coins I've come across that are copper-plated lead. Of course, Samuel H Black made advertising tokens to that effect, as things that are called electrotypes all are.



While it's kind of arguable if this Store K bottle might be considered a trade token, it does say 'good for 5 cents' on it, and similar things (like the clay jug from Alabama) are.



While I've noted Tenino's colorful cedar wood depression scrip before, the 50c one is new for me. 50c and $1 denominations are much scarcer than 25c ones, and cedar wood scrip is much scarcer than spruce wood ones. The 50c has a low serial number to boot.



We mentioned Rwanda's Noble 7 early on but this is from the Noble 5. They had different designs each year. This one is the world's first iridium coin and weighs in at a whopping 1/25th of an ounce. That actually makes it pretty valuable considering the price of iridium.



One more -- silver is not a rare material but I do like the distinctive silver coins. These are Thai tiger tongue moneys (c. 90-100g size, large) and silver tamlung coins (c. 10-20 g size, small).

Very cool nautilator!

Thailand has some really interesting and unusual ingot-based money. Other 'classics' include tin-hat money and a tin rooster atop a string of six rings. In that particular one, the rooster had a defined value of 5 cents and each ring had a defined value of 1 cent, and the idea was you could cut the rings off to make change.

There are a few private German notgeld tokens that are brass plated Iron, and off the top of my head, I believe an Austrian one also