Novelty Items (time for a light topic!!)

mrfred · February 18, 2003 8:39AM

OK folks -- been a lot of heavy stuff on this board lately. Time for a new thread -- we had this question about a year or more ago, here goes:

What is your favorite 'novelty item' in your collection? A 'novelty item' is something that really has very little numismatic dollar value, is totally odd, perhaps terribly common, perhaps a fantasy piece (something somebody struck in a private mint or in a basement) -- any of the above.

Mine is a quarter-cent tax token from Illinois from the 1930s.

What's yours?

MadMarty · February 18, 2003 8:41AM

My potato toned Kennedy!!!

Actually I have a set of Proof Panama Balboas. I just like them...

Oh yea, and the Pissing Minuteman Quarter!!!

mrfred · February 18, 2003 8:42AM

That's the ticket! C'mon y'all.....

kieferscoins · February 18, 2003 8:44AM

I got alot if cool old slabs. I will post one or two tonight here tonight.

Cameron Kiefer

TWQG · February 18, 2003 9:24AM

A counterfeit common date merc AU-50

stujoe · February 18, 2003 9:48AM

I have a lot of crap...errrr 'novelty items'.

I just bought one of them there radioactive dimes a couple of days ago on ebay. Haven't received it yet but I have wanted one for a while.

BlueCole · February 18, 2003 9:51AM

a bus token from my town from 1948. and a Ga Power school bus token from Atlanta. It's AWOl right now, but it has an "A" cut in the middle of it.

B.

smprfi · February 18, 2003 9:52AM

I have the complete collection of Desert Storm coins minted by the Austalian Mint.

airplanenut · February 18, 2003 9:54AM

I have a double-struck 1682 3-pence (VG)- paid I think $4 for it... not worth much, but it's old, has lots of history, and is cool!

Jeremy

Russ · February 18, 2003 9:57AM

The poltergeist Kennedy half! Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

Russ, NCNE

fcloud · February 18, 2003 10:02AM

I have a 1861 Confederate Cent Restrike from the cancelled dies. I love the story behind the coin and think it is interesting. The coin isn't worth what I paid, and it will never be worth much. But the dies now reside in the Smithsonian. The coins struck before the dies were cancelled are worth a ton!

Flash · February 18, 2003 10:16AM

I have a Clinton quarter

MadMarty · February 18, 2003 10:19AM

Not a coin, but I have a baseball signed by Michael Jordan (remember when MJ played baseball)... Oh, and a stuffed alligator (from the 1920s)...

northcoin · February 18, 2003 10:28AM

Back in October there was a thread here titled, "For Those Who Buy the Holder." It was linked to an ebay auction selling a holder to hold a PCGS Slab and had the inscription on it of "Finest Known 1827 Half." Mind you coin was not included. I ended up outbidding CDT and Braddick for it. Don't remember how high I had to go but they stopped at $14.95. It is a novelty item - at least until such time as I locate an 1827 Half in a PCGS slab that will fit in it!

copperhead · February 18, 2003 10:33AM

1/4 cent Pen Mar Grocery token.

braddick · February 18, 2003 10:35AM

Here's mine:

Certainly is a "one of a kind"

braddick · February 18, 2003 10:38AM

Another nice match:

ldhair · February 18, 2003 10:41AM

This is one I really like.

mrfred · February 18, 2003 12:29PM

Back to the top

(This is SO therapeutic, isn't it??

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mbbiker · February 18, 2003 1:02PM

This is one of the paul jackson missouri stickers. I have a whole roll of them

satootoko · February 18, 2003 2:28PM

Hard to decide between two items with World War II connections, with a slight lean toward the Japanese coin, which is an undated Japanese baked clay 1 sen piece. 1, 5 and 10 sen pieces were created in the closing days of the war in 1945, but never went into official circulation. The 1s are undated, the other two are dated Showa 20 (1945). The 1s are known to have unofficially circulated for just a few days.

The other is a Red Point token used during the war here in the States. I suppose there a few other members of the board who remember needing to have both the money, and the requisite number of red points, to buy meat and a few other things. By the by, I'm looking for a Blue Point, used for other types of rationed goods.

mrfred · February 18, 2003 10:35PM

back to the top ...

WhiteTornado · February 18, 2003 10:46PM

I have a 1908 British farthing with great luster on one side, but some thick, milky white gunk on the other. Got it out of a bag of world coins I bought by the pound.

CThomas · February 18, 2003 11:57PM

I Have a Sac $ from the Gallery Mint with the initials of Ron Landis struck on the obverse. Only 22 of these were ever created and I received number 15 from Verne Walrafen who is the man they were created for! I think it's pretty cool!

Chris

NoviceKris · February 19, 2003 12:02AM

A 1947 "Lucky Penny" cent inside a chrome plated bottle opener from the Greisedich Brothers Brewery (Pronounced how you would fear 'Greezy-dick or 'Greasy-dick). Used to be a very popular beer in the Midwest but they would never make it now, considering the name. How do you order one of those without getting beaten up?? No numismatic value, probably worth more to the breweriana people.

Flash · February 19, 2003 7:49AM

Oh, and I also have a set of aluminum Shell Oil Co. president game pieces along with several of the paper holders for them.

ajaan · February 19, 2003 7:58AM

Mine is a wooden nickel - Buffalo's 125th Anniversary, World Port Celebration Sept 21-30, 1957. On the reverse - Good for 5c cash in Buffalo, NY through noon Sept 26, 1957 Redeemable in any Buffalo Bank.

dwood · February 19, 2003 7:59AM

Brothel tokens...my other collection

meos1 · February 19, 2003 8:40AM

Mine is a replica of the double eagle recently found aboard the C.S.S. Hunley. I won it on the Trade, tag, and giveaway board from bohica268. I have used it several times to give a presentation on the Hunley and numismatics. Kids just eat the story up and some adults do to. If your interested the link is HERE!

Thanks, Bohica268

Dan

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