So in a recent auction I was trying to bid on a few canadian and maritime decimals and was having no luck or I should at least some there was at least one other person that was "more" interested than I was.
As the auction continues, there's about 200 lots between the next two items that I'm interested in and have bookmarked. But I enjoy watching auctions and seeing what other items will go for. And one area which I have absolutely no knowledge in (merchant tokens and medallions) starts up in the auction and one particular lot had no bids. There was 2 dozen or so tokens, so I took a flyer and put in the minimum bid, because a few of the tokens looked really appealing.
Long story short... I win the auction, received my items and all last night I started doing some research on these new additions to my collection.
Holy crap what fun and what an education!
The piece that caught my eye was a Balmoral Oil token... it was just a really nice colour and had nice details, but I have now had to research a bit more on personal numismatist tokens, different merchants where they were located in canada the U.K. and U.S. and what services they provided, a bickford dollar, the zulu social aid and pleasure club, woodmen of the world... and so much more.
Not sure of the value of any of these tokens but from what I have researched already and past sales on
ebay I think I did pretty good, although it wouldn't matter. This has really been a fun adventure.
Just wanted to share my experience as it's been really fun and enjoyable going out of what I would normally depict as my "comfort zone"
Cheers
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