A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

A few recent additions coming up..........

Hawkes Bay & Gisborne Savings Bank 1769 -1969 James Cook Bi Centenary burnished copper medal / token.

It has the image in good deep relief of the Endeavour (Cpt James Cooks boat).
Wording 1769 James Cook 1969 New Zealand, and on the reverse in raised relief 1969 James Cook Bi - Centenary. Hawke's Bay & Gisborne Savings Bank.
Diameter 33mm
Weight 18gms
https://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/i...ody-d14.html

How fascinating the idea that collecting early 19th century British tokens shares some similarities to what happened with the early collections of late 16th century Dutch tokens. For the latter there are quite a few uncirculated surviving pieces of high quality.

Below is one example from 1585, one year after assassination of William of Orange when Holland needed help. In the South, Alexander Farnese was extremely successful in reclaiming revolting cities to Spanish control. In the North it was felt that help was needed from outside. So the Dutch went to the court of Elisabeth of England. One year later the queen sent Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester to Holland.

Obv: donkey and horse eat from Spanish masters, symbolizing the cities of Nijmegen and Antwerp that were taken by Farnese after a successful siege:



Rev: Queen Elisabeth gives roses to the Dutch ambassadors (one of them being the political leader Van Oldenbarneveld, "Mr Barnfield"):



For hand made quarter sized copper coins, the details are quite sophisticated. In the revolting provinces such tokens were made as small items of psychological warfare and propaganda. Collectors items from the start.

.......perhaps one more then

A very tidy medallette? In VG condition
The pic is a bit blurry.(check the link for a better pic)

HMS Victory medalet, 1905. This small "Victory" medallion was given to everyone medalets subscribing one shilling.

The obverse shows the starboard broadside view of HMS Victory with lower sails reefed to show the rigging shrouds. In the exergue below is 'VICTORY 1905'. On the reverse is written FROM B.F.S.S. NELSON CENTENARY CONTAINING VICTORY COPPER, E.R. VII.

Diameter 17mm.

http://www.oldcopper.org/special_to...medalets.php

Great additions Bas S Warwick and 1c5d7n5m
I am thoroughly enjoying your posts and appreciate the participation in the thread. Thanks!

Serves that guy right. Cruelty to animals people should all get the same treatment. Very interesting! I love it, justice served.
Where in the world do you find these things?

Amelia Earhart born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937

Although, this medal is commemorating The 1928 Transatlantic flight and Amelia Earhart is credited for the first woman to cross the Atlantic in flight, she had little to do with the flying the plane.
The pilot was Wilmer Stultz the copilot, Louis Gordon.
The team departed from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m on June 17, 1928, landing near Burry Port, South Wales, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later.

When interviewed after landing, Earhart said,
"Stultz did all the flying, had to. I was just baggage,
like a sack of potatoes."
She added, "maybe someday I'll try it alone."


Still she became quite the celebrity, resembling Lindbergh and was nicknamed "Lady Lindy" and was the "Queen of the Air".
She toured giving lectures, endorsed Lucky Strike cigarettes even started a fashion line of casual "active living" washable clothing. She used the A.E. logo on a line of luggage. She also wrote books.
She married one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s, George P. Putnam. He had worked with Earhart in her ventures and she finally accepted his sixth marriage proposal.

In May of 1932 she did fly solo across the Atlantic in a Red Lockheed Vega 5B. On January 11, 1935, Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.

(shown is the actual plane on display at The Smithsonian.)
In 1937 Amelia Earhart chose Captain Harry Manning as her navigator to Circle the Globe in the Lockheed Electra 10E.

He had been the captain of the President Roosevelt, the ship that had brought Earhart back from Europe in 1928. Although the Electra was publicized as a "flying laboratory", little useful science was planned and the flight was arranged around Earhart's intention to circumnavigate the globe along with gathering raw material and public attention for her next book.



Earhart and Manning disappeared somewhere around Howland Island in the Pacific.
It is located about or a little more than halfway between Australia and Hawaii. Earhart's flight was intended to be from Lae Airfield in Lae, Papua New Guinea to Howland Island, a trip of 2,556 miles.
This leg was the longest of the planned flight, the length was close to the maximum range of the plane, and the destination was a small island in a large ocean. They were estimating to be only 100 miles from Howland Island when they were lost and communications were one way only from the aircraft.
There are many theories, some bizarre, and some quite possible but none have proven the circumstances and whereabouts of the plane or Amelia Earhart's fate. She was declared legally dead on January 5, 1939.

amazing story, nice read!

Battle of Manila Bay
Admiral George Dewey and the U.S.S. Olympia
of the "Great White Fleet"

On April 27, 1898, he sailed out from China aboard the USS Olympia with orders to attack the Spanish at Manila Bay. He stopped at the mouth of the bay late the night of April 30, and the following morning he gave the order to attack at first light, by saying the now famous words "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." Within six hours, on May 1, he had sunk or captured the entire Spanish Pacific fleet under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón and silenced the shore batteries at Manila, with the loss of only one life on the American side.

Dewey was promoted to rear admiral in May 1898, and full admiral the following year. Returning to the United States in 1899, he received a hero's welcome. New York City's September 1899 welcome-home celebration for Dewey was a two-day parade. Many ribbons, posters, postcards, buttons, souvenir plates, spoons, glassware and medals commemorated this man and his ship. Here are two recent medals I have aquired.