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I discovered a cool token

I found this today..just thought I would share. It's been in my family since new, doubtless. It's the same size as the full size dollar, which is illustrated by the Ike next to it. Really cool...
Looks like VHS tapes make good backdrops too!
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Sorry the reverse is a little blurry. It has coin turn and not medal turn as well.
Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a medal rather than a token.

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  • zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825
    When you say you found it, what do you mean? Like at a BM? In a pocket in an old pair of pants? Tell us the story. Finding things is usually more fun than having things.
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm afraid I don't know the difference between medal and token. Sorry I am still new!

    Zeebob, I actually found it in my mom's old jewelry box. She forgot she had coins of any sort in there, and discovered this morning that there were some in there. This was the best, there was also one silver Canadian dime and a 1911 cent, which, unfortunatly has turned green, looks like it got wet at some point (Isn't that a key date?)

    there were also a handfull of half dollars (one was a 67, which I already had that year, but this is MUCH nicer-low mint state or high circulated) and three 1971 Ike dollars, one of which appears in the main post.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice medal... have not seen one like that.... Cheers, RickO

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