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Valued Member
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Interesting token with a piece of history.   |
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Moderator
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I really . . . really like that!
From the backwards S in Souvenir on the obverse to the horseshoe (that is unlucky hanging that way) on the back.
Appropriate as The Maine was unlucky. If you hang a horseshoe open end up it will hold it's luck. If it hangs the opposite the luck runs out.
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Pillar of the Community
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I've never seen that... very cool... Thanks for sharing
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Valued Member
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Spence
Thanks for the link.
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Very interseting!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I avidly collected Spanish-American War tokens, ones that celebrated victory and were used for advertising, many years ago. Having not seen this one before, I suspect it's a fairly scarce piece. Cool acquisition, this! Thanks for posting.
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New Member
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There are several different tokens with the Maine horseshoe reverse. I wrote an article on these and other Battleship Maine relic tokens and medals; it was published in the July-August 2020 of the Token and Medal Society's TAMS Journal. If you collect tokens you should belong to this non-profit organization. Feel free to contact me for membership information.
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Valued Member
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There is also a memorial to the Battleship Maine Sailors in the Key West Cemetery.
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@banjo, if your article is freely available, would you mind posting a link to it on this thread? Thx.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Valued Member
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I tried to find a link to that article but never could.
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New Member
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There are several varieties of this piece, and this one is fairly common. I discuss them, and many other medals made of metal from the battleship in an article, "A MAINE TO REMEMBER; NUMISMATIC MEMENTOS OF THE ILL-FATED BATTLESHIP, which was published in the TAMS Journal. If you aren't a member of the Token and Medal Society, I strongly recommend membership in this non-profit group, which has been publishing its Journal and numerous books since 1961.
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New Member
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I forgot to mention that if the back issue of the TAMS Journal in which this article appeared is no longer available from TAMS, I'll be glad to send a pdf to anyone who becomes a member.
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 Glad to see you on here banjoman.  |
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