Do you have an unusual numismatic item?

northcoin

OK, I'll start with this one - a gold ingot mold which still has gold residue. Guessing from the 1970s.

ifthevamzarockin

Not sure this is what you are looking for but I wanted to share. This is a 13 year recovery coin that belonged to my best friend. He had the bell made from another recovery coin by another member. I lost him on 4/24 due to a motorcycle accident.

Edited to add: Please no replies a simple like would be best. I don't want to have this hijack the thread. Thank You!

Timbuk3

I like it !!!

MWallace

I have a printing plate for the Redbook. It's very large. I'll try to get pictures later to post.

Pickwickjr

Not sure if you call this unusual, something a lot of collectors don’t see to often. I am a big fan of liberty seated coins so this is perfect. A medal that was engraved By Christian Gobrecht

Zoins

Very nice @Pickwickjr. I love Christian Gobrecht's work. Here's mine from 1895, awarded 51 years later to O.C. White & Co., which still exists today. It was formed by Dr. Otis C. White in 1883. It's amazing how long the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association was issuing these medals. I've been thinking it would be great to get collectors of these together to make a reference guide for the series.

O.C. White & Company still exists today. Here's some history from their site:

https://www.ocwhite.com/our-history

History of the O.C. White Company - Established 1883

In 1883 Dr. Otis C. White, a dental surgeon from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, obtained the first of many patents for his adjustable joints, which included a dental head rest and a universal ball and socket joint. These inventions garnered numerous technological awards, including The John Scott Medal (awarded by the Franklin Institute), and the "Gold", "Silver", and "Honorable Mention" medals at the 1893 Pan American Exposition (precursor to the World's Fair). These same universal ball and socket joints can still be found in use today in various "Machine Lite" products in the O.C. White line.

In 1894, the company became a Massachusetts corporation producing gas light fixtures. Less than a decade later, with the introduction of the "Mazda lamp", the factory turned its attention to the field of adjustable electric lighting fixtures and was the original pioneer in the field of adjustable task lamps and machine lighting.
[...]
Considered the World's Oldest Industrial Lighting manufacturer, O.C. White has earned an unparalleled reputation for the quality of its superior products and fixtures. It is not unusual to find the company's early fixtures in high end antique shops where high prices are demanded for the unique products.

Hemispherical

@Pickwickjr said:
Not sure if you call this unusual, something a lot of collectors don’t see to often. I am a big fan of liberty seated coins so this is perfect. A medal that was engraved By Christian Gobrecht

Like that a lot @Pickwickjr.

Caught my eye and then it made me want to look closer.

The design doesn’t look it, but it says a lot.

Thanks for the showing.

Zoins

Here are my original plasters for an approved US coin, perhaps the only ones privately available? This design for the New Rochelle Half Dollar by Lorillard Wise design was approved, however, a different designer and design was later selected. I'm a huge fan of the reverse side of this (with denomination).

GaCoinGuy

I have a couple of curiosities. One of them is a Cent that someone ran through a button press (it came from the wife's grandfather collection. There is a clothing fastener plant in town). The other is a cent that has been ground down to the size and thickness of a dime and a hole drilled in it. I assume to cheat old pay phones and if lost, only out a cent?

Will try to get pictures when I get home.

SoCalBigMark

Not sure if it's a ball marker.

BryceM

Some would say that most of the coins I own are unusual.....

FredWeinberg

Stop by my table at the ANA this August,
and I'll show you my 'most unusual'
PCGS holder.

KindaNewish

I thought that this was cool, so I bought it at a Stack's auction a few months ago. I really don't like the framing/matting, I was thinking about getting the drawing only reframed, and getting rid of the other stuff

Stuart

Although I sometimes consider myself “An Unusual Numismatic Item” , I do own a William Jennings “Bryan Dollar” minted by Gorham, identical to this one pictured in PCGS Coin Facts...

SilverEagle420

I have this 1883 Hawaii 1/8th dollar,, from what I found on pcgs it's a pattern coin and were made by Morgan I also have the normal quarter dollar and 1 dollar business strikes

gtstang

This Peace $ bank which actually belonged to my grandfather. I never knew he had it until after he passed.

TONEDDOLLARS

amwldcoin

I have this which is most likely from the Colombian Exposition.

Akbeez

Somewhat unusual find, picked up on ebay many years ago. Last year of gold coinage in US, and very little at that. Makes you wonder what it contained. 5000 what?

bsshog40

I've shown this before but I thought it was cool. I found this article in an old RedBook I bought off of ebay a few years back.

Oldhoopster

I had a couple of pieces of coin glass from the late 1800 s but the ex got them in the divorce.

The Corning Museum of Glass has a number of nice pieces of coin glass

Zoins

@Oldhoopster said:
I had a couple of pieces of coin glass from the late 1800 s but the ex got them in the divorce.

The Corning Museum of Glass has a number of nice pieces of coin glass

What is coin glass? Is it the same as the Blue Ridge glass pattern coins?

MasonG

Carson City Mint postcard.

WillieBoyd2

This little 4" x 3" plastic coin saving bank is from the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

A friend showed it to me. It was full of old silver coins and she wanted me to open it and get the coins out. I did.

The front reads:
A Great City ... A Great Bank!
The Cleveland Trust Company
63 Convenient Offices ... Banking Services
The Bank For All the People
(Drawing) Gen Moses Cleaveland

Under the bottom reads:
Tom Thrift Enterprises
New Canaan, Conn
Patents Applied For

The Tom Thrift company made these coin banks in the 1950's to encourage people to save money.

The coin bank has seven tubes for circulating coins of 1, 5 (two), 10 (two), 25, and 50 cents.

The sponsoring bank would hand the coin banks out to customers to fill with coins. The customer would bring the coin bank to the office where a teller would use a special key to unlock it and deposit the coins to an account.

I found a couple of similar Tom Thrift coin banks on Ebay selling for $15.00 to $30.00 and a couple of newspaper advertisements dated 1954 and 1956 from banks offering these coin banks to customers.