A Numismatic Game - Search For "Islands" On Coins And Tokens!

We continue the game by states. The next state on the list is Nebraska. There are different islands there, but of course the most notable in numismatics is Grand Island. There are several hundred different trading tokens with the inscription of this island. You can make a catalog of tokens only for this one island.

Grand Island, Nebraska, 1¢ token, 1$ token:

Then we continue the game. The next state is Nevada. There are some islands there, but I don't see any tokens for the geographic islands in Nevada yet. But I see about a dozen other so-called game islands with different names. For example, here:

Wild Island, Adventure Waterpark, Sparks, Nevada

While I am enjoying seeing all of these tokens being posted, I haven't added any of mine for two reasons:
1. I'm not a huge collector of tokens, but I do have a decent number of them; however, they are not organized by whether they refer to a place name that is an island.
2. You seem to be moving from one state to another independent of any sort of recognizable logic (e.g. geographically, alphabetically, or chronologically by statehood). So even if I went through my collection and found a token to post, I would have absolutely no idea of when you would be picking that state.

Alphabetically, the next state is New Jersey. There are many different islands and different numismatics about the islands. One of the islands is called Brigantine.

I found several different series of tokens with the name of this island, mostly entertainment or game ones. But usually the word "island" is not written. But still, I found one commemorative token on which the name "Brigantine Island" is written in full.

The next state in alphabetical order is New Mexico. It is the only one of all the states where I have not found anything yet. But I have found out something about the "sky islands"

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New Mexico does not have any natural oceanic or fluvial islands. However, it is known for its "sky islands" which are isolated mountain ranges rising above the surrounding desert or plains. These sky islands are considered ecoregions and are home to unique ecosystems.
Sky Islands of New Mexico: Madrean Sky Islands: These are the most well-known sky islands in New Mexico, characterized by pine-oak woodlands at higher elevations surrounded by desert.
Specific Sky Islands: Examples include the Sacramento Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, and Chuska Mountains, though the eastern edge of the Madrean Sky Islands is debated.
Ecology: The sky islands support a unique biodiversity due to the varied habitats created by their elevation changes and isolation.
Location: These sky islands are found in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico.

I have found a commemorative coin on this topic so far only for the state of Arizona:

Sky islands, Coronado National Forest, Arizona

In general, I want to draw attention to the old forts on different islands, this is a separate topic for the numismatic game. For example, I pay attention to how old fort tokens are sold at auction and sign the name of the specific island where this fort was located, despite the fact that these names are very rarely written on the tokens themselves:

Cushing Island / Fort Levett, Maine

Dutch Island (Rhode Island) / Fort Greble

Great Diamond Island / Fort McKinley, Maine

It seems to me that few people have researched this topic yet:







note: the photos from the ebay auction are here for research and educational purposes, not for advertising

It seems to me that the topic of forts on islands is a separate topic of interesting research, similar to lighthouses on islands. The peculiarity for forts is that usually all catalogs indicate only the name of the fort and very rarely indicate the name of the small island on which this fort was located. I compared the names and found more than a dozen forts with tokens on islands in different states.

The next state in alphabetical order is North Dakota. I've only found one island there so far:

Tropical Island Restaurant & Bar, 1120 College Drive, Bismark, N.D. token