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Pretty interesting acquisitions, nautilator!
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So I have gotten some more things.




I don't think we put this in the thread. Rwanda issued a tiny coin made of indium for the Dubai Expo in 2020.





These are rare trade tokens from about the 1870s and were made of diatite. Diatite is a compound made of shellac and diatomaceous earth, and was made as an imitation of vulcanite, due to the latter's expense. We can now add it to the list of obscure thermoplastics (gutta percha, molded mica, casein) that were seen in rare instances in numismatics. A lot of "vulcanite" items from this time were made of vulcanite substitutes.




For some reason, zirconium is rarely seen in numismatics, except in a handful of obscure tokens. Tantalum too would be a very rarely seen metal except that in modern times we started making some nclt's out of it.




The Danish auction house that put these up for bidding says they were used for salary payments for women in the navy. I certainly haven't seen any tortoiseshell plastic tokens otherwise.




The Northwest Coin Club put out a number of wooden souvenirs about 75 years ago and kept detailed information about them. These two are made with two colors of lacewood.
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Very interesting items, nautilator!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Nice additions, nautilator!
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Fantastic examples!
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