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

That Airflow is a beautiful car.

In the 8 medal lot I added a duplicate for my Heraldic Art Medal collection.
1960 Heraldic Art Medal
Pony Express


I have 37 in all, the new Pony Express a duplicate Battle of Lake Erie


and my main collection of 35 different ones.

I had recently added a pair but 5 Other medals have joined the stable.
3 bronze, one with an envelope and two silver.
1960 Pony Express Centennial Assn. Bronze Medal HK-583
1960 Pony Express Centennial Assn. Silver Medal HK-582


The Pony Express Association is evidently still active to this day, having annual "re-runs" by volunteer riders to re-enact the actual ride of the Pony Express that lasted 18 months between April 1860 and October 1861.
The completion of telegraph lines ended the historical feat of carrying the mail from Missouri to California in only 10 days by horse and rider.

The National Pony Express Centennial Association was chartered in 1957 in Utah as a non-profit corporation, with it's only purpose, to sponsor a 1960 re-run and to perpetuate the history of the Pony Express.
The Board of Governors were from California, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, the eight states through which Express ran.
President Dwight D Eisenhower agreed to be the Honorary Chairman of this Board in 1957.

The 1960 re-run was financed principally by the sale of 1,000 letters carried by re-run riders, Official First Day Covers and U.S. Mint Medals.
Official Medals such as my bronze one above that came with the original un-numbered envelope were authorized by Congress as "national medals". There were far more bronze medals minted, perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 bronze were struck of the half million authorized. Only 5,000 silver were struck of which I own which is No. 2947 on the envelope.

It was designed by J. A. Links and struck at The Philadelphia Mint.
The obverse shows the Pony Express founders with conjoined busts of William Hepburn Russell, Alexander Majors, and William Bradford Waddell. The reverse portrays the famous watercolor by Herman Hansen, Pony Express Horse and Rider that he painted in 1900.

My other two


and

This is the last of the lot of 8 Pony Express medals and the main reason I bought it.
1961 Pony Express Termination Centennial
Silver Medal HK-588



The Gold Rush in the mid-1800s necessitated a fast mail service. The Pony Express was developed as an alternative way for the mail to cross the North American continent.
Using many mounted riders, on a route from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California the founders of the Pony Express established a company for moving the mail that was faster and more reliable than stagecoaches.

The Pony Express only operated for a year and a half—from April 1860 to November 1861.
The end of the Pony Express is directly related to the telegraph. The completion of the telegraph system and the termination of the Express occurred within a one-month period.

1961 Pony Express Termination Centennial silver and bronze medals were issued by The National Pony Express Centennial Association, Salt Lake City and were designed by Roy J. Olsen. Authorized by 86th Congress and struck at Philadelphia Mint.
Only 3,000 silver medals minted and sold for $4.50 when released for sale in 1961. 15,000 Bronze medals of the same design were minted and sold for $1.50 each the same year.

The Coming and Going of the Pony Express
by Frederic Remington

* Tokens * (Canada - Transit Tokens)

Token - Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission.
Years 1993-2008.

TNG - thanks for the info add.

* Tokens * (Canada - Local Dollar Tokens)

1985 1 Dollar - Folklorama Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Commemorating the year of the youth.