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We can remind everyone that you DO NOT need to own the token. SO this is about a "virtual" collection not your real collection. I am sure a lot of CCF participants have a favorite island they have visited. Maybe a token exists? Yes. You are absolutely right. This is a pure game. And so virtual that there is nowhere else. Besides, it is deduction and free surfing on the Internet. For scientific, educational and entertainment purposes. Quote:
The only other island I visit somewhat regularly is Mackinac Island Michigan Thank you! This is a very wonderful island and a small special magazine with a review and listing can be published about numismatics on this island. There are many types of different tokens on this island. Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1$ token   Edited by Islands Gamer
07/12/2025 07:55 am
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The only other island I visit somewhat regularly is Mackinac Island Michigan (sorry that I am not in alphabetical order). Though today only a tourist destination, through history it has held strategic importance for the French (fur trade 1640s-1760s), the British who staffed a fortress there 1780-1814, and the U.S. who maintained that fort into the mid-19th century. For the last 150 years it has been all about tourism. If you look at the map, there is Round Island nearby. There are also special tokens about it: Round Island - Mackinac Island, Geocoin  Round Island - Mackinac Island, elongated pressed cents, Round Island Lighthouse  |
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Maybe your next virtual collection could be U.S. lighthouses
Just on the Great Lakes there are over 350 (including ones in Canada):
You probably already have the ones on islands in your database. Yes. But there are some complications. For example, different islands with the same name in different countries: Bois Blanc Island(s), U.S.A. & Canada, lighthouses, wooden nickels  |
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Or, for example, Round Island Edited by Islands Gamer
07/12/2025 10:23 am
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Or, for example, Grand Island(s):  |
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I have been collecting all the numismatics on the islands for a long time. And now I can tell you a secret while no one hears us.. Wikipedia says that there are about 500,000 different individual islands on our planet. And as a numismatist, I can say that in numismatics you can find about 10,000 different islands. Of these, about 500 are in the USA.
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The next state in the alphabet is Connecticut. There must be some tokens because the state has a long coastline and many islands and there are lighthouses, such as the Faulkner's Island Lighthouse for which I found a medallion. But essentially I found almost nothing for Connecticut. Maybe you know more about this? The next state in the alphabet is Delaware. I found only a couple of islands there for numismatics. This is Fenwick Island elongated cents, and Pea Patch Island, two wooden nickels:  Edited by Islands Gamer
07/13/2025 08:06 am
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The next state is Florida. It has about a hundred islands with their own tokens. It's hard to even say where to start, there's a huge variety. For example Marco Island, there are many different tokens for it. And among them are these 20 dollars 2006:  |
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Bois Blanc Island(s), U.S.A. & Canada, lighthouses, wooden nickels "Two for one!" (two different lighthouses in the same name!) |
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It looks like the Penn-Ohio Wooden Money Collector club specializes in lighthouses of the Great Lakes.
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It looks like the Penn-Ohio Wooden Money Collector club specializes in lighthouses of the Great Lakes. Yes, I have found their journals in archives "The Ontario Numismatist". But there is no complete collection published anywhere. In total, they issued tokens for about 450 lighthouses, but I personally do not collect lighthouses. So I selected only those associated with islands, and this is about 120 islands. You can see some examples above...  |
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"Two for one!" (two different lighthouses in the same name!) I'm glad you noticed that these are two completely different islands with the same name. They are also in different countries. But the question arises why they couldn't come up with another name? What is the reason for this? I also noticed that they have some complexes and myths around the duck:
Main Duck Island
Great Duck Island
Old False Duck Island Edited by Islands Gamer
07/13/2025 1:00 pm
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The first European settlers in the Great Lakes Region were French fur traders.
The likely explanation is that different Frenchmen working for different fur companies at different points in time in the 17th century named each of the places Bois Blanc Island (probably because they had white poplar trees on them, which are still commonly seen around the Great Lakes). There was no centralized administration of the area by the French government until 1663.
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in time in the 17th century named each of the places Bois Blanc Island (probably because they had white poplar trees on them) Probably so. This is another theme for the game when swapping names. For example, at the very beginning of this topic, tokens of Pine Island in the state of New York are shown. But there is an Pine island with the same name in Florida, and in Texas, and in Minnesota, and in some other states. Here are some tokens, for example:  |
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