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It's the about the size of a Large Cent and appears to be bronze. any help with a date range and or history would great ... thanks Bruce   Edited by Surfchunker
08/23/2013 1:20 pm
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this must be really rare being nobody has a clue
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Looks like a souvenir coin from the 1980s.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Have to agree that it is a souvenir token/medal might even be part of those sets of "coins" that are sold when their is a group of attractions grouped together.
late 70's through the 80's might even still being sold.
In that condition it would end up in the .50ยข junk bin/box @ the local coin shop. "RARE" doesn't mean it has any more value than what somebody would pay for it.
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got to believe it's older than that I was metal detecting when I found it and all the coins I found there dated from the early 20's into the mid 40's .... done searches and the 80's and up are all way different ... only found one pic online after a week of searching and it was on ebay and that guy researched it and couldn't find anything about it either .... the patina and crud would not have been like that from a token from the 80's ... the area I found it dates back to at least 1863 |
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Edited by tracyaw
08/25/2013 3:03 pm
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Yours could be from the 1876 Major World fairs, as many coins, tokens souvenirs like yours were struck, )and by all accounts rare)
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United States
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I'd say it dates in the range of the one posted in that last link ... done a lot of metal detecting and can just tell it's old and know it's rare and it's not a mass produced thing. I'd say it was given to very special visitors of the white house or capital just the detailing in the clouds and everything ... the link I posted is in much better shape but in it you can see more of the detail of it
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Yeah, more probably a 1876 exposition token/coin/medal than the 1980s souvenir token, but no idea about its history. If you find out do let me know.
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sure will, you seem to care and want to help out. But I'll probably never know
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that's the thing if it was modern I would have gotten info somewhere ... with my Minelab metal detector it rang up exactly like a Large Coronet Cent from the mid 1800's with similar patina of being old and nothing new was found in that area ... less than 50' away I found a small Indian cent dated 1883. there is nothing new in that area |
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Edited by amida17
08/25/2013 4:50 pm
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Well, here's the exact same images, obverse and reverse, if you can forgive a slightly different font for "US Capitol." http://www.ebay.com/itm/400560337022Beneath the White House reads "Bastian Bros. Co. Rochester N.Y.," which was founded in 1895, but is still making medallions. They could probably date their production of this model. I'm not sure the numismatics.org code from the link above really is meant to date their medal to 1934. Edited by philadelphian
08/25/2013 5:17 pm
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