Is there any interest in trading tokens and medals?

cladking

I'm getting a rather sizable number of duplicates and wonder if there's
enough interest to start looking for trading partners again. It's been
many years since I've done this and just want to get an idea if there's
much interest.

lordmarcovan

With you? Absolutely.

cladking

<< <i>With you? Absolutely. >>



Cool. Thanks.

I'm looking for new trading partners but old friends are like gold.

I've got hundreds of nicer ones and thousands of the more common stuff
and prefer to trade like for like. For instance If I have 30 different telephone
tokens then I'd like to trade them for thirty different. I try to leave a lttle
latitude so I can match the quality of what I get too.

I have a knack for sending only what the other party needs so he thinks
he's doing better than he really is. Each pays own postage. I will trade
dissimilar items sometimes but this is a sort of minefield because people
value things so much differently. For instance junk telephone tokens are
$2 items to me and mardi gras doubloons are about 3c. If someone else
values them far differently then my offer of ten TT's for 500 doubloons looks
like a rip.

I'm really just testing the waters here. I think most of my old token partners
are retired now so need several if I'm going to do it.

I'm looking to add stuff to my collection which isn't too difficult since I collect
die varieties. Most of my tokens are 20th century.

lordmarcovan

Generally I would be after pre-WW2 era and preferably even older tokens and medals.

I had a ton of Mardi Gras doubloons including some slightly older ones. I sold most off in my 3/$1 bin downtown. The kids like 'em for the colors but I can see how they might be a yawn to some folks.

I would like odd or unusual tokens, jetons, or medals and maybe some old "Good For" saloon tokens or things of that ilk.

Modern telephone tokens can be cool looking but don't excite me much.

Really, I guess I'd only be interested in older exonumia. Not necessarily pre-1900- just older.

Of course my Rulau encyclopedia cuts off at 1900, datewise.

Maybe I should hold off until I see what I have. A lot of the exonumia has already gone downtown to my cheaper pick bins.

PS- feel free to PM me with specific interests and/or stuff you have, though.

Let this be a TTT for you, and a testimonial:


Though I have never met Sam (Cladking) in person, he and I have been trading stuff for 17 years. I "met" him through the Numismatic News Classifieds long before I had ever owned a computer, let alone discovered the Internet.

He is very good to swap with, y'all.