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Bedrock of the Community
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Further references on military tokens (from tokencatalog):
Military Tokens Of The British Commonwealth by John F. Yarwood
Military Tokens of the United States - Volume 2, Overseas Issues by Paul A. Cunningham (1998)
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Nice examples!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I've gone to the CNE most years since I was a kid. They produced a medallion every year during most of the 60's and 70's, which was before my time. The only medallion I recall getting as a kid was a gold coloured plastic piece that my young neighbour ended up leaving his teeth marks in one day as he "wanted to see if it was real gold". This was years ago and it's long since disappeared somewhere. This is the first one I bought, but may try to get the rest of the series over time. The first medallion I've owned that has a birthday cake on it!  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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@Cdncoins: Nice souvenir medal! Congrats on the purchase. IMO, a complete run of them would make for a great collection!
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Thank you, Hondo Boguss, for this...I'll track down a Cunningham. Quote:
Further references on military tokens
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--- Mario Andretti
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice Cdncoins. Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Fantastic medal, Cdncoins!
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Bedrock of the Community
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daltonista, Cunningham Vol. 2 is readily available (eBay, $60). That's less than half of what Vol. 1 goes for. Cunningham's website directs you to Amazon, where it's listed for $135 used. And if you run across Rich Hartzog's page, it hasn't been updated in several years as he passed away. Yes, I've been trying to find the cheapest ones available! Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Thank you, Hondo Boguss, for those sources. Since I don't want to actually own the book, I'll have my local library consortium's excellent Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department borrow a copy for me from one of these few (civilian, non-Federal-agency) libraries that have it on the shelf, per my WorldCat search:
Ashland University (OH)
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library (MI)
Alexandria Library (VA)
University of Notre Dame - Hesburgh Library (IN)
Milwaukee Public Library (WI)
It's also available online, I see, via HathiTrust, where my old .edu email address usually allows me to borrow obscure and or/ancient exonumismalogical books, but ILL has always worked better for me, and generally I can have the physical book on loan for six weeks. My ILL folks are working right now to get me one of the handful of copies in the USA of this other expensive book about another collecting field that overlaps as a significant subset with mine:
 Appreciate the guidance, guys!
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--- Mario Andretti
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Medal minted, 1909 as support from the City of Trieste to Sicily which had an earthquake. 24mm   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice medal and very interesting, dar! At first glance I though it was from Isle of Man.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice Hondo Boguss. Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks, Errers! The "three legs" on dar's Trieste medal and those on the Isle of Man coins are so similar that it can't be coincidence, but I don't know of any connection between them. Manx coins have had that symbol for hundreds of years, according to Three Legs of Mann. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Medal minted, 1909 as support from the City of Trieste to Sicily which had an earthquake It is certainly a very nice medal, and with an interesting symbolism. The three-legged Medusa is an emblem of Sicily that dates back to several hundred years BCE. There are Sicilian coins from the 4th century BCE with the three legs and a Gorgon head (the head in the middle has varied). The Greek colonists early on associated the symbol with the triangular form of Sicily, with its three promontories. The origin of the Isle of Man three legs is not known with certainty, but the symbol appears on 13th century coats of arms. It is possible to construct a connection to Sicily: In 1254, the pope gave the Sicilian crown to Edmund Crouchback, son of king Henry III of England (the pope considered Sicily to be a Papal possession, which was far from undisputed - there were also other claimaints to the Sicilian crown). Edmund's sister Margaret was married to Alexander III, king of Scotland, who in 1266 took over the control of Isle of Man (from Norway). A possiblity, although somewhat conjectural. But looking at Isle of Man from above, it also has three promontories.  (The symbol on the reverse at first glance looked like a French fleur-de-lys to me, but it is a sort of spearhead, a symbol of Trieste.) |
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Medal minted, 1909 as support from the City of Trieste to Sicily which had an earthquake. 24mm Very nice! |
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