A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

Very interesting and informative thread! Thank you for sharing.

Five bucks at an estate sale. Still deserves better than an image from my scanner which, because of the high relief design, is ... awful.

obv // THE NEW MILLENNIUM // METROSTARS 2000 // LOOKING TOWARD OUR FUTURE

rev // YEAR TWO THOUSAND // TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

Bronze (to my eye) 64mm Diameter 6mm Thick

The New York City MLS franchise played as the MetroStars from 1996-2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Red_Bulls ... When they were sold to Red Bull, they eventually became the New York Red Bulls

Three of the design elements (the upper arc, the lower arc, and the stylized '2000') were also used in a watch fob, but with a nifty sci-fi-type design, to wit:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Souvenir-2...302741150985

Q/ Anybody got a lead on the designer and/or manufacturer? (I found nothing on the rim)

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

@spruett

That's really cool seeing the structure minted on the coin and an image of it as it is. Nice write up too.

Great additions! Thank you guys!

Here's one I could not resist. I think it is awesome and the history behind it even more so.

2014 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Bronze US Mint Medal


This bronze medal is a duplicate of the Congressional Gold Medal honoring the volunteers of the 17th Bombardment Group, led by Lt. Col. James Doolittle during World War II, who made the first strike against Japan on April 18, 1942.
The top-secret mission called for the raiders to take off from the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) in 16 B-25 bombers. From 450 miles outside of Japan, bomb select Japanese targets and then fly to safety in unoccupied areas of China. The operation was risky, as medium bombers had never before flown from a carrier, and sailing so far into enemy territory was dangerous. The wing tips had a clearance of only 4 feet from the "island" of the flight deck and they had only a 400 foot runway.

Each of the sixteen B25 bombers had five member crews. Each had specific targets, bombing oil storage facilities, factory areas and military installations.
Dwindling fuel supplies, however, prevented the crews from reaching the designated friendly airfields, forcing them to ditch their aircrafts at sea, bail out or crash-land in China. One crew flew to the Soviet Union, where its members were held as prisoners.
Others were captured by Japanese occupied territory and executed.
In all of the 80 members of the raid 69 survived.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of the Chinese, most of the Doolittle Raiders evaded capture.

The obverse design features the North American B-25B Mitchell launching off the USS Hornet (CV-8), 16 stars representing the 16 flight crews that made up the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders.

The reverse design features B-25B Mitchell aircraft approaching their target with four patches representing the four squadrons (34thM, 37th, 89th, and 95th) that make up the 17th Bombardment Group.

Here is a video less than 5 minutes long with good footage and commentary.

Awesome video. I wish it was longer.

1986 Wilhelm Tell Orden - Luzern Casino Medal

A medal to add to my other folklore medals. I remember very well the story of William Tell as a child.
Perhaps being a youngster myself with good imagination, I could not quite grasp the idea of why he would take the chance of shooting his son in error. It's one of those things that stick with you I suppose.
It has stuck with the Swiss for over 700 years.

I have found this large 53 mm - 58 gram medal, came with a red velvet ribbon to be worn about the neck, my best guess is that it is a modern silvered shooting medal from the mid 1980's sponsored by the Casino Luzern that is located on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Lucerne Switzerland.
The casino is shown on the reverse.


The Wilhelm Tell Monument is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. This is nicely depicted on the obverse.
The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895 at the foot of an old tower. Behind the sculpture is a bronze plate with the following inscription that translates to


It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son. At the base is the traditional date of Rütlischwur of 1307.

Rütlischwur is a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Uri near Seelisberg. The oath is notably featured in the play William Tell (Wilhelm Tell) by Friedrich Schiller.

The legend of William Tell, a folk hero from Switzerland, was the start of the swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century White Book of Sarnen, and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. If he did not both he and his son would be killed.
After splitting the apple with the single shot on November 18, 1307, Tell is asked why he took more than one arrow from his quiver.
At first he responds that it was out of habit, but when assured he will not be killed for answering honestly, says the second bolt was meant for Gessler's heart should his arrow strike his son.
In Schiller's play, the demand to shoot the apple off the boy's head motivates Gessler's murder.

I like this sort of music too.

Very nice!

I have not yet found what connection this has to Massachusetts in 1910. It could simply be a medal of celebration of the first Christopher Columbus voyage. When I was a kid, we were taught that it was Columbus who discovered America. We also celebrated October 12th as an important day of the year.
That has always been good enough for me. In recent times, people have protested this, even to the point of removing Columbus Day from the calender and list of traditional American holidays entirely.

On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, located in the southwestern Spanish province of Huelva with three ships. The larger carrack, the Santa María and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer.
The monarchs forced the citizens of Palos to contribute to the expedition. The Santa María was owned by Juan de la Cosa and captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Niña were piloted by the Pinzón brothers (Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez).
Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile. He restocked provisions and made repairs in Gran Canaria, then departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on 6 September, for what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. At about 2:00 in the morning of 12 October, a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard, a smoothbore cannon used in the early Renaissance in Spain and Italy.
Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.
Columbus called the island (in what is now the Bahamas) San Salvador (meaning "Holy Savior")
The natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and on what one would expect from the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island. (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus's San Salvador)