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Quote: Tin-zinc alloy 5 sen from 1944. Very nice! 
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Kingdom of Thailand -- 10 satang, 1945 (tin):  
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Tin money is rarely studies, nor are base metal alloys. There's an older coin somewhere that's a tin-lead alloy.
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1964 Vatican City 100 Lire (Stainless Steel)  
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 This is a modern silver coin that comes with a (loose) wood panel for decoration. The panel modern (clearly laser cut) and I wonder if it's been chemically treated to cause the toning under mine.  Also, I don't think I ever posted this: dirt.  These are plastic packets that supposedly contain tailings from a gold mill. A lot of these were 'minted'.
Edited by nautilator 01/21/2021 3:53 pm
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Great examples! 
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I just acquired these recently. They are Myrtle Wood Depression Scrip from North Bend Oregon. The wood grain on these two is just absolutely beautiful. I'm planning on swapping out the current Blaine wooden nickel in my set with the North Bend Dollar below. First issue 50 Cent:   Second issue 1 Dollar:  
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Myrtle is by far the nicest of the 24 woods I've come across thus far. You really can't describe or picture just how nice the lacquering makes these.
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Fantastic examples! I like those myrtle wood tokens especially. 
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You guys have some awesome items. How do you store or display your collections? I've seen leather items that would dry out if not stored properly and others that I'd assume require special care. How do you address such issues? Again. This is one of my favorite threads on the CCF. Thanks for everything you share.
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Storage is a pretty serious issue that's not necessarily resolvable. Everything that can go in standard flips and the likes does, others are put in cardboard boxes and whatever fits them. There are so many unusual dimensions that specific supplies could probably be its own thing by itself. Leather storage is not a very big deal. Drying out doesn't seem to be an issue. The 200-year-old Estonian scrip is still pliant. Others are naturally hard as they are. Of course, that having been said, I think there is something that "tones" them.  Both these leather medals have some sort of spotted toning on them, it's more visible on the Columbian expo one. I don't know why this happens and my best guess is by whatever box it originally came from. Another major consideration is that if you leave leather notes in damp situations they will go moldy. Here are better images of the above: an 1893 Columbian Expo medal, and a 1908 John Reid (Australia).    
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Here are a few more of my recent leather items. Nearly all of these have blank reverses.  Riverton Lions Club, WY depression scrip. Only place other than Enterprise to issue buckskin currency, and only on the 50c denomination. Seattle Coin Club $2 bill. Trial strike(?) of Crescent City Coin Club, LA medal.  The Traveller, Canada, 15% off trade token. Costa Rica coffee pickers token. Kentucky coal cart tag. Febe's, San Francisco, 25c. The Cows Outside (leather goods store), MN, 5c. Apparently a railroad-related medal... Leather Expressions, IA, advertising token. Seattle Coin Club 40c. (I'd like to think those were legit trade tokens for a time.) On a different note,  I don't normally go into primitive moneys and I don't really consider them money in the same sense as other things here, but might be nice to show off. Togo stone money. There's some debate as to whether this one is really money. Boar's tusk used for trade in East Africa, and porcelain replicas because real ones were really hard to get. Silver bracelet, one of many used for trade in the Congo. Bronze slave trade bracelet attributed to Cameroon.
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Leather is certainly unusual and very interesting. 
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 While zinc is not rare by any means, this is one of the few that is specifically zinc for the sake of zinc. There are a handful of similar tokens out there, like that Union Pacific one made of a 'sample of aluminum that makes Union Pacific trains' as well as an American tin token that I have that's quite a bit rarer.   This is a small terracotta token from Nepal. It may be a trade token but I don't really know anything about its specific use. One of these was included in a HAE auction with Nepal trade tokens, https://ha-europe.com/en/browse?aid...24&lid=29730
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