Question About Unusual Coinage Materials/Post Your Unusual Materials Coins!

Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Here is something that I acquired a little while ago. It is a 1915 Mexican Revolutionary Cardboard 5 Centavos Piece from Toluca. Sorry for the photo quality, this one proved to be hard to photograph well, the details look better in hand.

Impressive!

A few random-ish encased postage stamps.

On the left are Spanish ones, which are easy to get a hold of. The colorful ones are a bit better than the plain ones at the bottom.

At the upper right is a German one, also easy to find but worth more than the Spanish ones.

Below it is a New Caledonia stamp from when it was a French possession, and that one is pretty valuable.

Below that, a Danish one. These types are very common.

The one at the lower right is from Madagascar. Those are pretty rare and worth a fair bit even in the terrible shape that that's in.

You've probably seen these. They're wooden flats and the ones with a pretty distinct 'treading' on them.


I just discovered something neat going through some I just got in a lot of them.



These are peeling apart and they have three layers to them. The interesting thing is that the middle layer is paper, thus these are made of two layers of wood and one of paper.

A lot of depression scrip is made of this sort of thin ply as well, but the ones I know of are just two layers of wood directly bonded together.

Thale am Harz, Germany notgeld. I got this because they're described as enameled. It's magnetic, but there's definitely something coating it.




Also... I got the 1574 Leiden coin, made of Bible pages or similar. I found that there are in fact 8 denominations of this type of coin, but usually only this one comes up for sale. I think the impressed seal in the coin is what holds it together, as part of it is pretty loose...