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

Medallic Art is still a "company" though now as a division of Northwest Territorial Mint.

Thanks Griffin!

If they are your images Toot on the last page, you did really good. Better than I can.

Dorothea "Dolley" Dandridge Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 - July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for her social graces, which boosted her husband's popularity as President. In this way, she did much to define the role of the President's spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson.
Dolley Madison also helped to furnish the newly constructed White House.
When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving the classic portrait of George Washington. In widowhood, she often lived in poverty, partially relieved by the sale of her late husband's papers.



I personally think that Dolley presents herself very nicely on this medal. A series of which so far, I have only seen one other and that was of Martha Washington in poor condition. I thought this was a cool find.

The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue concerns the fate of United States servicemen who were reported as missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam War and associated theaters of operation in Southeast Asia.



Following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) were returned during Operation Homecoming. The U.S. listed about 2,500 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action but only 1,200 Americans were reported killed in action and body not recovered.
Many of these were Airmen who were shot down over North Vietnam or Laos.
Investigations of these incidents have involved determining whether the men involved survived being shot down.
If they did not survive, then the U.S. government considered efforts to recover its soldiers' remains. POW/MIA activists played a role in pushing the U.S. government to improve its efforts in resolving the fates of the missing soldiers.
Considerable speculation and investigation has contributed to a hypothesis that a significant number of missing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam Conflict were captured as prisoners of war by Communist forces and kept as live prisoners after U.S. involvement in the war concluded in 1973.
A vocal group of POW/MIA activists maintains that there has been a concerted conspiracy by the Vietnamese and American governments since then to hide the existence of these prisoners. The U.S. government has steadfastly denied that prisoners were left behind or that any effort has been made to cover up their existence.
The fate of those missing in action has always been one of the most troubling and unsettling consequences of any war. In this case, the issue has been a highly emotional one to those involved, and is often considered the last depressing, divisive aftereffect of the Vietnam War for the United States.

Thanks TNG, yes there my pics. still trying to figure out the lighting.

The 1988 San Diego Coinarama Medal is the final in the series of California Protected Species, and honors the Sea Otter.



This ocean dwelling weasel is one of the smallest marine mammals. They generally live nearshore in the northern pacific, both along Asia and North America. At one time, population estimates put the otter at around 150,000-300,000, extensive hunting dropped their numbers to around 1,000-2,000 in the early 20th century. Soon a hunting ban was enacted. Since then, the number of Sea Otters worldwide has rebounded to a little over 100,000 individuals. They are still classified as an endangered species.

As for the California Sea Otter, their thick fur brought Russian hunters into California waters, where they also hunted seals and sea lions. Most people outside of California are unaware that Russia created an outpost in present day California, north of San Francisco. This encroachment down the coast even prompted New Spain (Mexico) to move up the coast to protect their land. These Presidios, Pueblos, and Missions became many of the large, important towns in present day California. Pretty amazing that our state was formed in part because of a furry little sea creature. At their height, it is estimated that there were about 16,000 otters living of the coast in California. The furriers assumed they had captured them all, but one small colony of about 50 otters near Big Sur were left. The current population has been hovering at around 3,000 for the past few years.

Sea otters are one of the only known animals to use tools. They use rocks to break open shells. It is quite possible that otters keep the same rock for years, if not for their entire life. They have also been observed playing with their rock, rolling it around on their chest, and then diving to catch it in the water if they drop it.

The medal shows an otter floating on it's back.
Mintage:
Silver - 102 (haven't seen one)
Bronze - 200
Copper - 200
Other metals - less than 10

A little different and maybe slightly off track but I picked up these supposedly 1920 Canadian Caisse & Banque Scolaire Notes which roughly translates as 1920 French Canadian Play or School Money.

They may have been used in some scholastic activity to teach kids about how to make transactions with money.


Now whether these are that old, I do not know? I got them really cheap. The seller must have a stack of these.
I thought they were kinda neat. Let me know if you have the $5 or $50.


I do not have the $5 or $50 and I think that would complete the set but I do know they exist.
They look like this.

My 15th Heraldic Art Co so-called half dollar.
The reverse appears to have been adapted from this photo.





If you are as old as I am or older, you remember a few things for the rest of your life. Where you were when it happened and some things about the reaction of those around you. How you felt when you heard the news.
Yes, I remember hearing of the assassination of JFK when I was in school that day, even as a little kid.
We were sent home early. Our Zenith black and white television on all day and night. The three or four channels that we had covering this event continuously for days. Then the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the funeral when President Kennedy lay in state and the long silent procession.
I can still remember the clip clop clip clop of the horses which is all the sound that was really heard the whole way to Arlington Cemetery.



I have visited this place of the eternal flame on a later school field trip at Arlington, still in grade school.
Although, I really had no understanding of politics or vicious crimes as a small kid, I do remember as I did, that all the people around me and on the TV, all seemed to share the same confusion, grief and sadness.
It was a time when everyone was united completely, on some emotional common place.
I had the same feeling when the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the jet fell in Pennsylvania on 9-11-01.
Only then I was not the innocent child I was when JFK was killed.