My Sunday Market Finds

Now you know the date and like one said here: be sure to mark your calendar for next year.

Hope next Sunday would be much better for you!

Fingers crossed!!

I don't want to set anyone off, but I think the gold sensors have gone off again.

But first, today's loot:


Swedish Token, 15 Öre passenger token for what I think is some old railway company
Possible gold medallion? Commemorating Volkswagen-Transporter 1 million produced (?) (2x1962)
10 Pfennig, Germany 1916-A
1 Daler SM, Sweden 1715 (actually an emergency issue, otherwise it should have been plate money and thus much larger!)

100 Forint, Hungary 1998
1 Dollar, Singapore 1989 & 1995

5 Dollars, Hong Kong 1980
1 Dinar, Tunisia 1990
100 Drachmes, Greece 2000

Now, the piece in particular is this one:

My household scale doesn't help too much but it seems to weigh inbetween 3 to 4 grams. It is incredibly thin yet it feels slightly heavy in hand. Turns out it has the exact same size as a LMU 2 Centime-type coin, diameter and thickness.

In this case, a good condition Spanish 2 Centimos coin.

Such coins weigh 2 grams. The medallion weights slightly yet notably more. Its ring tone is very low and clear compared to the 2 Centimos. It also has an intense luster and doesn't seem toned at all.
I've found no information on this piece. I've been searching for everything written on it, gold medallion, coin, volkwagen gold medal, medallion on ebay and google and the only match I got was an equally elusive image with no description, just the medallion in question. Anyone think they recognize this piece? Any leads?

Apart from that, I paid 20 kr for the coins & stuffs pictured (apart from the 2 Centimos). It seems one of my favourite coin sellers has left for now, didn't see him last time and not today either. Guess I'll have to keep looking.

Next week is Christmas eve but that's family time, so I won't be going.

I hope it's a second gold

Hi X2an,

Good finds you have here!

I would have to agree with Buddy that the "gold" coin you have might be a gold-plated one.

The reason I am saying this is that I found this link that might be of an interest to you:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/ite...1945-to-1961

It appears that the gold coin would have some kind of notation that it is gold?

Hope your coin is either real gold or gold-plated (preferably, gold one).

I think if I read German correctly that the coin is issued to commemorate the 1 million Volkswagen Transporters being manufactured and achieved on 2nd October 1962. The coin is for Volkswagen AG (Group) headquartered (or at the head office) in Wolfsburg, (formerly West) Germany.

I think it would be a good idea to e-mail Volkswagen AG to see if they have an achivist to help you in identifying this coin or medal?

Fingers crossed for you that this medal is gold!

I did some research on German forums and have come up with this:

It's indeed a gold (900/1000) medal. Volkswagen did several of these medals during the 1960s.
This medall should have the following specifications:
weigth: 3,5 gram; diameter: 20 mm

Considering the present price of gold the medal is worth around US $100.

Minted at the Bavarian mint in Munich.

VW's PR department in Wolfsburg should indeed know more about the medal.

Great find.

Thank you ever so much redlock for digging into this

The measurements match precisely, so it is indeed a match. I did a quick calculation and its value today is SEK 1076.62

And thus, this makes the second gold find for this year! Amazing!

I will contact VW to see if I get any more information about this piece. If anything comes up I'll post it here.

Second gold find! Very pleased for you, X2an! Happy we have information.

May we ask redlock as to why it does not notate any indication that it is gold like other medals?

Congratulations!

Thank you, redlock, for answering my question! I do appreciate it very much! I am glad you were able to help X2an in a big way!!

I agree with you that X2an needs to contact VW's PR department to see if they could share more information with him (and us if X2an could gladly share?) on these gold medals.

We probably will find out in the New Year. :)