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

I don't have any pictures but have placed my order for a Liberty Seated Collectors' Club Premier Membership Medal

You can see it here http://lsccweb.org/Premier-Membership-Medal.shtml

I went with the proof silver medal as that is the only option for my wallet at this time.

-MV

Not much exciting here tonight but I dug these out of a junk box and I got them for free.
They go nicely with the NRA medals I have. One of another Whitetail Deer which was also sent to me as a gift from a nice CCF member last fall.
I guess, I'll post the NRA's too.

Twenty Whitetail Deer were down in the creek before sundown and walked right past my bedroom window tonight and headed for the cornfield across the road.
Food is scarce these days.

These first two were made in 2001, maybe the series 2 Mountain Lion in 2002.
There are also Grizzly Bears, Black Bears, Mule Deer and Moose. I don't know what other predators there are. I found a Wolf.
Ya know, I kinda like them.







These belong along side the NRA's in my collection.




This one came from CCF member Rafa20440 as a gift.
Looks better than this washed out image for sure.

This one is more like a triumph that lead to tragedy jbuck.

I grabbed this one quickly, they scarcely are seen for sale. Last one I could not bid high enough and settled for the other available Helen of Troy medal. Tonight this one is mine.
It is difficult to put the History in a capsule, but I'll try. You could always watch a movie with Vivien Leigh or if you have a lot of time with Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.



Often known simply as Cleopatra, this ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra VII Philopater, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, last of the Ptolemy dynasty of Egyptian rulers. She is also known for her relationships to Julius Caesar and to Marc Antony.
Cleopatra, according to the stories, had herself delivered to Julius Caesar's presence in a rug and won his support. The image of young Cleopatra tumbling out of an unfurled carpet has been dramatized in nearly every film about her, but it was also a key scene in the real Cleopatra's staging of her own life.
Ptolemy XIII died in a battle with Caesar, and Caesar restored Cleopatra to power in Egypt, along with her brother Ptolemy XIV as co-ruler.
In 46 BCE, Cleopatra named her newborn son Ptolemy Caesarion, emphasizing that this was the son of Julius Caesar. Caesar never formally accepted paternity, but he did take Cleopatra to Rome that year, also taking her sister, Arsinoe, and displaying her in Rome as a war captive. That he was already married (to Calpurnia) yet Cleopatra claimed to be his wife added to a climate in Rome that ended with Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE.

Cleopatra and Marc Antony is another story, they had three children but being defeated in the Battle of Actium by Octavian, they both ended dying in suicide. He stabbing himself, and she causing a poisonous asp to bite her dying at age 39.

Some theories are that there was no snake bite, that poison killed Cleopatra.
Cleopatra died a quiet and pain free death.
This painting shows she may have had a fascination with the effects of poison.
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners by Alexandre Cabanel (1887)
I prefer to believe the movie versions with cobras in a basket and Marc Antony at her side.

This was mis-listed, so that is how I stumbled upon it. Some are blank and some have names inscribed.

It is very nice!

What a neat medal and wonderful write up paralyse!
I like the color. I think I see a loop. What type ribbon is in there now?
If none, what kind do you think belongs there?

Great Washington medal parlyse!

two_tone that is a very cool treasury award