A Numismatic Game - Search For "Islands" On Coins And Tokens!

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Your enthusiasm is welcome. Stick around a while and you'll figure out how to manage the game you propose.

Let's assume that we started the game "in islands" and we started with the Staten Island token. Let's see what we can do next: we can collect a series of other denominations of the same issuer, we can look at other categories of numismatics on the same island - there are transport tokens, trade tokens, there are Masonic, plastic, shipbuilding tokens, wooden nickels and other types of numismatics..
Or you can go the other way: look at what islands are nearby. There is Manhattan Island and Long Island. And also a number of smaller islands around. And for many of these islands there is a series of numismatics, at least one token with the name. And then on Wikipedia there is a full list of all the islands of New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...York_(state) and you can see what tokens exist further down the list..
Let's start with the simplest thing - we'll collect a selection of different denominations for one issuer:


Who would like a game like this..?

Thank you! Few people realize how interesting this can be.
Here I am now looking through my archive of photographs and looking at the different categories of numismatics that exist on the island of Staten and are suitable for collectors. This is very useful for getting into the whole topic of numismatic research. See for yourself, here I will list by category for this island:

- 1961 good dor 50c
- savings bank
- Fort Wadsworth Staten Island New York - four options of tokens (military)
- plastic tokens - six options
- fun tokens (arcade, pineball, food, pizza, carousel) - five options
- transit tokens - four options
- Encased Cents - three options of tokens
- ship-building tokens - five options
- wooden nickel tokens - nine options
- beyond the bridge token
- masonic Staten island chapter - five options
- Staten island zoo elongated pressed cents - seven options
- coin club token
- challenge coins Staten island - six options
- medalls - five options
- dog tag, and so on

I will tell and explain how my game came about.

A long time ago, as a child, I had a box with coins from different countries, and later in 1990, I was a student and decided to collect one coin from each country. Two years later I collected coins from Africa, Asia and South America. At the same time, I began to notice smaller countries, and those that are on the islands. Then I began to think deeply about it.

So, at first I bought coins of those countries that are easily accessible and well known on the islands, every collector knows them. I found them quickly and bought them. Now I will list the ones that I immediately noticed:

Malta island, Cyprus island, Ireland, Iceland, Bahamas islands, Bermuda islands, Aruba island, Curacao island, Netherlands Antilles islands, Eastern Caribbean States islands, Madagascar island, Sri Lanka island, Seychelles islands, Maldives islands, Solomon islands, Tokelau islands, Vanuatu islands, Indonesia islands, New Zealand islands, St.Helena island, Ascension island, Tuvalu islands, Papua New Guinea islands, Fiji islands, Tonga islands, Samoa islands, Cook islands, Niue island, Kiribati islands, Philippines islands, Comores islands, Jersey, Guernsey, and Man islands, Borneo island, Barbados island, Puerto Rico island, Falkland islands, Cayman islands, Newfoundland island, Prince Edward island, Guadeloupe island, Timor island, Lundy island, British Virgin islands, Jamaica island, New Caledonia and PolynesiaC islands, Cuba island, Reunion island, Mauritius island, San Thome and Principe islands, Cabo Verde islands, Trinidad and Tobago islands, Palau island, Tristan da Cunha islands, Azores islands, Madeira island, Canarias islands, Pitcairn island, Turks and Caicos islands, Marshall islands, Saint Lucia island, Grenada island, and several others.

Right now I took an old album with my collection from the shelf and I'm leafing through it, so I'm listing it out of order, but because it's left in the album ..

After I bought all these coins and put them in albums, I took a sheet of paper and wrote a list of those coins that belong to the islands, which I saw in the catalog or that I was told about, and wrote a list of what I lack in order to so that I have a coin of each island. It turned out about 35 items in addition.

And soon other important things came up, I put this list in an album and put the album on the shelf .. And I forgot about it for the next 20 years.

At that time, I didn't know much about the topic that I began to collect, as it turned out now. So I started collecting information...

Very interesting!

Here is another token from another island in New York. Photo from an auction. Only one copy is known:

Seeley Island Club Inc., Good For 10¢ Little Falls, NY

I looked for this island on the Google map of New York and the maps show that now this island has a different name: Moss Island.
There is almost no information about this token, and I am not sure if I found it correctly on the map. Does anyone know? Does anyone have a catalog of NY tokens to check this?

For those who are interested, I can suggest looking at the list of islands throughout the state, and a separate list of islands in New York City on Wikipedia:

1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ew_York_City
2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...York_(state)

Sic! Now notice that the lists do not even mention the existence of such an Seeley Island (or such an Moss Island). It's a bit like a scientific discovery...