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My local dealer calls and says he has something very cool for me...
MadMarty
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It looks to me like some kids project from the 30s or 40s, I found it very cool and that the date on the last coin is 1933-.
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
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nice flag, too.
Reminds me of our encyclopedia; I grew up in the sixties thinking Truman was our current President!
Joe
I like the 48 star flag.
I thought I had better warn you that my daughter will be up in your neck of the woods doing a little celebrating tonight.....
Did you get to St. Louis this year?
Dan
They were included in boxes of Cracker Jacks up through about the mid-30's.
You suck.
Kinda funny now that i think about it,when i was born,we only had 48 !
The token pictured looks like the more recent type which isn't much more common
than the older type but does tend to be easier to find in nice shape. It's hard to
tell much from the obverse alone.
These were made in huge numbers but they have had an horrendous attrition. They
are usually found only one at a time and will be beat badly. They are usually available
very cheaply but there are specialists and nice ones can bring strong prices. There
may be no true rarities but there are several which are extremely elusive even to spec-
ialists.
There was a recent write-up on these in Coin World.
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Russ, NCNE
<< <i>This dealer loves Marty. Any time weird stuff comes in, he knows he's only a phone call away from unloading it.
Russ, NCNE >>
But Marty sucks. I'm gonna haf ta go shoppin'.
48-STAR FLAG (1912 - 1959)
Due its longevity and the rapid pace of historical events, the 48-star flag developed a legacy that may have surpassed its predecessors including the 35-star Civil War flag and even the 13-star flag of the American Revolution. It was under a banner of 48 stars that President Wilson called for a special day of honor for the flag. The process of pledging allegiance to the Flag of the United States became official under the 48-star flag as well. (More about both of these subjects a little further in the tour.)
Under the 48-star flag the United States faced a world at war and sent our soldiers to defend the freedom of Europe. During the American Revolution, French nobleman Marquis De Lafayette had sacrificed much to a United States Flag of 13 stars. As American soldiers arrived in France in 1917, Colonel Charles E. Stanton stood at the tomb of Layfette under a flag now bearing 48 stars in testimony to that Nation's growth to proclaim, "Lafayette, we are here." Slightly more than 20 years later this same flag saw our Nation through another World War. It was this flag that was flying over Pearl Harbor when our Nation was attacked on December 7, 1941. It was this flag that was raised from the top of Mount Suribachi in 1944. It was this flag that landed on the shores of Korea in 1950.
Russ, NCNE
by "Save This Coin". While the rules were changed during the program the third type could be
obtained by sending a number (4) of the tokens to the issuer. They would return the third type
which had "cancelled" in the center of the reverse.
Those with cancelled are probably the scarcest except in high grade and the "medal" is much
more common especilly in low grade. "coin" is a little more common in most grades. Both coin
and medal appear in two minor types because dies were reengraved when supplies ran low.
Katrina
Russ, NCNE