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Jester's Challenge #233

1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
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Welcome to Jester's Challenge, an interactive history lesson.

It is my hope that this series will provide us with much entertainment, knowledge, and friendship, through the active participation of as many people as possible. Please tell us what you know of this coin, or anything related to it. Thank you all!

Here's selection number 233:


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.....GOD
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
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  • joecooljoecool Posts: 527
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,966 ✭✭✭
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    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I wonder about the age and history of this piece.

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Great piece, Mike! I like it very much!image
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  • NJMark1NJMark1 Posts: 479 ✭
    Nice one I haven't seen that one before. I have a bunch of the naked lady ones with the breasts on one side and the behind on the other.

    Mark

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    I'm guessing it's from a tobacco company in Durham NC. Same as the Durham Bulls baseball team that the movie "Bull Durham" was about. Neat! image
    Terry

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    DPOTD Jan 2005, Meet the Darksiders
  • BruceBruce Posts: 484
    That is quite the interesting piece. Except I think they have it backwards, You win if you don't smoke and you lose if you do!
    So many coins, so little money!
    Ebay name: bhil3
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe it's from the late '50's. I've seen at least a few of them, so it's not likely to be rare.

    Company sponsored tokens and medals and advertising pieces are an extremely underappreciated
    segment of exonumia. There are notable exceptions for soft dring and aotomotive items but most
    everything else just languishes. My favorites are fast food, electronics/computers, and various heavy
    industries. In this last category I like steel, automotive suppliers, air craft, air port, and chemical con-
    cerns. Many items from all these categories with only a few thousand in existence and half a century
    and older can be picked up for under $1.
    Tempus fugit.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I appreciate the info, Cladking. I knew you'd be able to shed some light on this token.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm guessing it's from a tobacco company in Durham NC. Same as the Durham Bulls baseball team that the movie "Bull Durham" was about. Neat! image >>



    That's exactly right, and the Bulls were named after the tobacco company. I don't know if you've ever been to the old Durham Athletic Park, but they had a famous sign beyond the right-field fence for Bull Durham tobacco that said "hit bull, win steak." That was the best minor-league park in the nation until baseball's monumental greed destroyed it. I was there once when they were filming the movie -- it was cool to watch!
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