This isn't mine but is something interesting that I came across recently. It's a Trade Mirror token from the early 1900's. Meaning it's a trade token on one side and a pocket mirror on the other side.
Here's a new one that I acquired recently. It's an advertising token from the late 1800's made out of phosphor bronze, which is bronze containing 2.5 percent phosphorus. Phosphor bronze was used to make telegraph transmission lines due to its corrosion resistance.
The token doesn't really look exactly like regular bronze in my opinion and kind of has a slightly wet look to it when examined in hand.
Oh, do you have any trade mirrors? I won one last year. I'd like to get another 2-3 as representative samples but most of them out there have a horrific price/grade ratio. I don't think one should pay more than 100, maybe 125 for the more common ones (eastern, face value of 10c) without any damage to the mirror.
I had previously found it mentioned in an auction lot that stated that these tokens were 2.5% phosphorus but I can't seem to find that particular auction lot again. After doing a little more research I think that the auction lot description may have been off by one decimal place and actually meant to say .25% since I was able to find a current list of Elephant Brand Phosphor Bronze products as seen in the link below. Elephant brand produced many different types of phosphor bronze and based on that list the highest phosphorus content was only 1% (Grade s*) and that's still a ways off from 2.5%.
Quote: Here is one more modern one that I acquired recently, which pretty much rounds out all of the obscure metals used in modern NCLT.
It's a 1999 5 Pound commemorative coin made out of Titanium. The coin was produced by the Pobjoy mint for Gibraltar to commemorate the new millennium.
That's very cool and interesting! I've never heard of a coin being made out of Titanium. Thank you for sharing this! I've definitely learned a new thing today!
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