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

I get the dilemma. I think you made the right call for now.

Nice Moooooo-ve Not Baaaaaa-d 999

"Another stop on Roadside America"
or
"How to make the best of two inexpensive souvenir tokens"


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1960's Buffalo Bill's Home Town
North Platte Nebraska
Fort Cody Good Luck Tokens

When the original Buffalo Bill Trading Post operated from 1950 to 1954 there was a figure of Buffalo Bill outside that resembles the one on the token.
I am guessing these date to sometime shortly after 1963 and prior to 1970. That is because Fort Cody did not exist yet in 1954.


In 1963 a new Fort Cody Trading Post opened.
Created by Royce Henline and Irwin "Doc" Dunlap, Fort Cody Trading Post has been in continual operation since 1963. The first Fort Cody was located on US Highway 30 in North Platte and closed in 1969.
The second and present Fort Cody was built to coincide with the opening of Interstate 80 in 1968. It continues to be family owned and operated, and is soon to be in third generation ownership.

@999fine: Neat fair medal. Looks to be nicely struck with full details on obverse and reverse. Thanks for posting!

I wonder if any of the sheep and wool festivals that exist today (there are some!) issue any medals or tokens?

TNG - the yellow Ford in the top post card ROCKS!

* Tokens * (Canada - Local Dollar Tokens)

1979 Nimpkish Dollar - British Columbia Indian Heritage Series III.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

Nice example!

Thanks for the new posts 999 and Dorado.

I'm adding this one to my 1947 and 1948 c.smith So-called Half Dollars and similar album. http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...p?album=2033
It is NOT a 1947 c.smith issue.

Thomas A. Edison
Edison Primary Batteries
50 years 1889-1939

I wish I had a list of medals that this on which this obverse was used.
I guess I am making one myself.
Adding this to the collage of Edison medals.
I have spotted another personal discovery but I think it is overpriced for the condition.

Thomas Edison had a focus on making a better battery for use in electric vehicles, however, it took him a decade to develop a commercially viable iron-nickel battery and by that time automobiles were powered by internal combustion engines. Existing batteries like the Grenet Cell were made of glass and inadequate. Edison made his mark in the world of batteries with many improvements. The Edison-Lalande cell was a landmark improvement in batteries, it had improved durability and lasted about one year in storage. Edison had a long time interest in batteries of all sizes to power his inventions such as the electric pen. Edison's last major improvement to batteries was the development of a practical iron-nickel battery.
The early Edison iron-nickel batteries used thick glass housing to hold the potassium hydroxide electrolyte.
Some models of these batteries could hold charge for many years. The railroad industry still uses decades-old iron-nickel batteries to back up switches and other apparatus due to its long term reliability.