Do You Add Commemorative Tokens To Your Commemorative Coins?

LeeG
Very cool, thanks for posting, I have never seen those.

I am thinking there might be a ton of tokens and information pamphlets
that would be nice additions to a commemorative coin collection.
Well maybe not a ton, but enough to keep an eye out for.

I also collect exonumia (which includes tokens) since I spend a lot of time going through "junk boxes" and pick up anything interesting.

I keep them separate from the coins, but it seems to me that you could make a nice display with coins and related exonumia.

Very nice GR58 ... fully concur those medals are indeed nice complementary items to a classic silver commemorative issue.

Some additional information on your Alabama medal ...


Alabama was one of 13 States to issue fund raising medals in support of their participation in the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition held February - December 1915 in San Francisco.

You are correct that these 13 issues are generally referred to as 'Fund Dollars" ... an while certainly collectible the Alabama medal is not in the '75 to 100' issued range you suggested.

In the broader context of So-Called Dollars (which all of the Pan-Pacific medals reside) ... the standard cataloging reference was originated by Hibler-Kappen and each example assigned a unique identifying number in the series.

Your bronze Alabama Pan-Pacific medal is HK-402. There is an identical design in silver plated bronze known as HK-402a.

Thanks for sharing!

David

Here is an token or medalet that has indirect ties to the Isabella Quarter. This is Mrs. Palmer Potter who was the president of the Board of Lady Managers. It was her group who sold the quarters as a fund raiser. At the end of Columbian Exposition Mrs. Potter bought 10,000 of the quarters that did not sell. With a net mintage of 24,214, Mrs. Potter's purchase has saved collectors many dollars over the years. If those 10,000 coins had been melted, it would have driven up the market prices for the Isabella coins considerably.



Finding pieces like this is not easy, and sometimes frustrating. Once, at one of the few Georgia coin shows I have ever attended, a dealer had over 75 of the "youth medals" that were issued with the Stone Mountain commemortive. He had them on display and would not sell any of them.

Tried to take some pictures of the tokens with the commemorative coins.

1921 100th anniversary half dollar with 150th token




1932 200th Washington anniversary token with 1982 250th Washington half dollar

GR58: Great stuff! I hope you keep your tokens/medals collection growing! (Just FYI, each of the pieces you've posted is a medal rather than a token.)

I'm definitely a collector of "cousins" to US commemorative coins!

There are too many to list here, but if you were to search for my posts on the individual classic coins, you will see quite a few official medals and ephemera items associated with the coins that I have displayed. Collecting these items has sort of been "my thing" for years.

need to get my camera set up but I picked up a dolly spouse bronze to go with my dolly silver dollar