Rare wooden token

SYRACUSIAN · April 5, 2005 2:08AM

I don't have my Krause, but it must be early 21rst century

Rob, I'm kidding of course, thanks for the coins , they're great.

AuldFartte · April 5, 2005 9:17AM

Gotta be a counterfeit ... no hole

cosmicdebris · April 5, 2005 9:38AM

Red Xs for me

JamminJ · April 5, 2005 9:38AM

I'm hoping to dig one of those some day.

-JamminJ

wybrit · April 6, 2005 10:55AM

It looks to be a bit toned in the middle.

ajaan · April 6, 2005 11:14AM

I like this one:

boz · April 6, 2005 12:11PM

lordmarcovan · April 7, 2005 5:01AM

Ajaan has the rare one. The mintage on Dimitri's is 500; the mintage on ajaan's laser-engraved piece is only ten.

Steve27 · April 7, 2005 5:16AM

I have the rare one too.

ajaan · April 7, 2005 5:43AM

<< <i>Ajaan has the rare one >>

Great, if only I could find the damn thing.

lordmarcovan · February 16, 2011 11:16PM

Thread resurrection warning- this is a six-year-old thread. I just happened to stumble across it in a search.

Dimitri, that rare wooden token of yours is indeed rare now, at least around these parts. I have exactly one of those left!

Did I ever send you one of the wooden dollars with the Morgan design, done in red?

This is the actual thread I was searching for, since johnsim03 is back around. It was weird- I got one of John's wooden nickels randomly mixed into the box when the company who made them shipped me those wooden dollars I'd ordered. Small world.

olmanjon · February 17, 2011 2:23AM

"Did I ever send you one of the wooden dollars with the Morgan design, done in red? "

Lord M-I have this one. I don't remember what I bought from you but you sent it along with the package. Thanks
Olmanjon

lordmarcovan · February 17, 2011 3:24AM

The red Morgan dollar "wooden dollars" would be LordM Series III, I guess, if some truly pathetic nerd of the future were to catalog them. They're my current box.

The green Buffalo nickel designed ones like in the OP were Series II and as I mentioned, I only have one of those left, unless another turns up in a drawer somewhere.

Series I was a specially made laser-engraved piece with a picture of Lord Marcovan (the fictional Veronian baron, not me) on it. Laserart made ten of those for me and I do not still have one. A few forum members still do, though, I guess, unless they've used them for doggie chew toys or to shim up wobbly table legs.

johnsim03 · February 17, 2011 4:23AM

Rob,

Was this the one you got?

The reason I am asking is that there are several different versions out there. This particular one, well -
I've got a bag of several hundred of them...

John

pmac · February 17, 2011 8:46AM

Tough using a metal detector on these, huh?

lordmarcovan · February 17, 2011 9:47AM

John- yes! That's the one they mixed in with my shipment of red wooden dollars (of which I don't have a picture). I thought it was funny- small world, like I said.

Pmac- you're right- these ain't exactly metal detector friendly!

Anybody else have their own custom woodies or tokens?

ajaan · February 17, 2011 9:55AM

<< <i>A few forum members still do, though, I guess, unless they've used them for doggie chew toys or to shim up wobbly table legs. >>

OK, I'll have to search for mine.

lordmarcovan · February 17, 2011 9:56AM

Do any of you WANT to have your own custom woodies?

One caveat: Old Time Wooden Nickel Company does good work overall but they don't have the greatest attention to detail. I still have a box of that first run of the green Buffalo design out in my shed because they got MY NAME wrong on them- they printed them up as "Robert" Shinnick! So I didn't let any of those get out into circulation. Maybe they'll be "rare errors" someday, if I let one or two trickle out.

I plan to spray paint the rest gold and use them as gaming counters in a board game I am making for my nephews. On my second order, OTWNC screwed up again, and the "fix" they sent was only partly acceptable. So I have mixed feelings about them. On the one hand, they're the leader in wooden nickel production and probably have the best prices, but on the other hand, some of the people who work for them probably aren't that bright. I imagine it's probably only the luck of the draw that there were flaws on two out of two of my orders.

ajaan · February 17, 2011 10:00AM

oops, supposed to be a PM

spinaker2000 · February 18, 2011 7:00AM

I am the proud owner of #1 of 10 of the rare LM wooden token.

lordmarcovan · February 18, 2011 4:03PM

Wow. You have #1? Cool. I don't even have any of those myself. Laserart did a good job on 'em.

I guess you Yetis must keep all sorts of rare treasures in your icy caves, eh?

ajaan · February 18, 2011 8:34PM

I have #5 of 10

SaorAlba · February 18, 2011 10:18PM

I will have to check mine, but Syracusian, I think he shorted you since mine might be a wooden dollar - a whole 95 cents more than yours!

SYRACUSIAN · February 18, 2011 11:39PM

Dimitri, that rare wooden token of yours is indeed rare now, at least around these parts. I have exactly one of those left!

Glad to hear it, I have it in a plastic capsule along with other numismatic beloved items.

Did I ever send you one of the wooden dollars with the Morgan design, done in red?

Rob, no, I've never gotten a wooden dollar.must have been one of these periods that we weren't trading so often I guess. I'd love to have one if there's one left.

lordmarcovan · February 19, 2011 10:02AM

<< <i>I will have to check mine, but Syracusian, I think he shorted you since mine might be a wooden dollar - a whole 95 cents more than yours! >>

Hey, you know how inflation has been running rampant!

Rare wooden token

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