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

Excellent!

Yes I did TNG. That entire series is really interesting. I also like the one for the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake. Actually, I haven't seen one yet that I didn't like!

Yea, it's a really nice medal with an artical of its history. I told him that he should post it hear as well.

Here's a Napoleon Bonaparte medal I just got and it was priced right.
There was little info on it that I could find so I looked up the text and translated some French from several places and post this info I gathered.
I am thinking this is a modern medal commemorating the restoration of the actual statue.



The Statue of Napoleon made by the sculptor Charles Emile Seurre is a bronze statue of 4 meters high and weighing nearly 5 tons. It sits today facing the entrance to the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides above the gate of the soldiers' church.
Placed initially at the top of the Vendôme column, it was inaugurated on July 28, 1833 in the presence of Louis-Philippe1.
Napoleon III decided in 1863 to replace the statue of the Vendome column by an imperial napoleon draped in the antique style. The statue of Seurre is then moved to the Courbevoie roundabout (La Defense roundabout)
In 1870 during the siege of Paris, the statue immersed in the Seine near the bridge of Neuilly to prevent the Prussian army seizes or degrades. Several versions are advanced by historians:
an involuntary immersion, the transport barge having capsized,
a voluntary immersion to secure the monument decided by etienne Arago,
an act of vandalism perpetrated by anti-Bonapartists.
After a stay of 4 months at the bottom of the water, the statue is recovered and placed in The Deposit of Marbles of the State.
It was not until 1911 that General Niox, governor of the Invalides had the statue placed in its current location.
The statue underwent a complete restoration between July 2014 and March 2015.
I do not think this is an old medal.
NAPOLEON / LE GRAND / LA FRANCE / REGENEREE
on the reverse translates to:
"Napoleon The Great France Regenerated" which makes this a jeton or medal probably signifying the recent restoration of this statue in 2015.
The obverse was probably a reissue of a design of earlier medals by
Joseph François Domard (sculptor/medallist 1792-1858)

I do not collect tokens as such but I found these U.S. transit tokens on my recent trip to the Philippines and thought they were interesting.

I have not read up on them so I have no more information that what is written on them. lol


This one is a Hudson Port transit token (NY - NJ)

I picked it up because I like the cutout in the arrow.







This one is a New York Transit token.

I grabbed it because I like how intricate the border is. I also thought it was pretty cool that the center plug is still there.

Merry Christmas TNG!
motox4life just posted a really cool die. I told him he should post it here as well. Check it out.
http://goccf.com/t/303664#2597380

Thank you motox4life! For posting here too! I'm sure TNG will chime in soon.

Thank you for the information TNG!

According to the website you supplied the second token was used from 1986 - 89. I identified it based on the initials SJD under the "GOOD FOR" and above the steel plug. The initials are for the assistant controller Silvester J. Dubosz.