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Very nice, Hondo Boguss.
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Some new acquisitions.

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It's hard to read because you see both sides of this glass token simultaneously. It was made for use by a glass factory in Czechia in 1849 and has a face value of 6 kreuzer. The picture can't do this one any justice, it's absolutely dazzling in person.


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One of a group of marathon medals I found recently, that is made of slate mined in Honnister, England.


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A Mexican baptism token made out of a Mexican 1 peso coin.


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A scarce instance of a clay-based poker chip being used as a trade token rather than a gambling chip. Like so many of these sorts of things, this one is attributable to Montana.


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Another drink token on a slice of antler. This is the first one I know of from Idaho, rather than Wyoming.
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Very interesting, nautilator! Would photographing the Czechia token over a dark background help?
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It will probably just come out black. Come to think of it, I do know someone who p4ides himself on his coin photography, I might ask him about it.
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Very cool, nautilator!
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New Orleans, LA. Public Schools Lunch Department 1 Cent - Red Fiber. CF 6293 P/34-01e. 1943 - 1945. R9.
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New Orleans, LA. Public Schools Lunch Department 1 Cent - Red Fiber. CF 6293 P/34-01e. 1943 - 1945. R9.
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So what kind of fiber was used to make that coin Hondo? (the topic does say "Questions about unusual coinage material", so I'm asking
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Fiber tokens were especially common during WWII due to conservation of metal for war purposes.

What they did, I think, was dissolve paper in zinc chloride solution to create layers of paper atop each other. You can see that along the edge of any true fiber token.

(I say true fiber token because things like the Manchuoku 'fiber' tokens do not have this layering and are not actually fiber.)
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