some mardi gras tokens

Cam40

i found in a box at the folks the other day.
they measure 1 1/2 inches across so theyre sizeable aluminum pieces.
all have smooth edges except the choctaw indian one. it has reeded edge.
two have the same obverse but different reverses.

llafoe

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mingot

not tokens.

doubloons!

FYI - the obverse date is the date the krewe (or club) started. The reverse is the actual date of "issue".

OldEastside

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I'm kinda scared to show you anything especially BEADS after that Marilyn Monroe thing

Steve

ricko

Neat tokens.... even better if you were there to get them... and some beads too .... of course,,, Cheers, RickO

RunnersDad

Some of them have good value as they are passed/thrown out in very limited quantities. There are also several Krews that throw out Gold doubloons or at least they did in the past when gold was much cheaper. Thanks for posting!

johnny9434

nice tokens.

cladking

<< <i>Some of them have good value as they are passed/thrown out in very limited quantities. There are also several Krews that throw out Gold doubloons or at least they did in the past when gold was much cheaper. Thanks for posting! >>




They make lots of gold and silver doubloons but so far as I know they are never
thrown. Almost every issue there will be a couple or few dozen of them in gold
and silver and these are not especially difficult to come by, or at least the silver
ones can be found. Most are presented to the krewe leaders and other notables
such as A Sharpe who designs many of the tokens.

These tokens come in a very wide variety of themes and purposes and many are
more properly called medals because they celebrate a thing or place. There are
several that are good fors including one soap token. There are hundreds of ad-
vertising tokens which are my favorite though I collect all of them. designs have
a tendency to be mediocre but there are lots of superb ones as well.

Pensacola and Mobile, Alabama also have throws used very much like the New
Orleans issues.

There must be a remarkable number of these available when all the different col-
ors of aluminum and metals (bronze too) are included (25,000?).

I often wonder if these things give the city any problem with plugging drains and
gumming up the works. I also wonder how many million were lost in the flood.

Mercury

Mardi Gras Doubloons are collected in New Orleans. The ones you pictured are aluminum. The older ones can be found in Silver and Bronze and are worth alot more.

There is a collectors club called the Crescent City Doubloon Traders. There website is Club Website

You have doubloon from three diffrent krews. Krews are what the clubs that put on the parades are called.

Alla

Choctaw

Cleopatra

BBQnBLUES

Well I've got 22 ELVIS Doubloons (in different colors) from 9 different krews... think they might be worth anything ? ha

Cameonut

Here is my one and only doubloon. Mystic Nites of Juma, Jean Lafitte Pirates, 1979.

bolivarshagnasty

These were given to my Dad in '72 by a local parade official. We were living in Destrahan, Louisiana just outside of New Orleans. Dad was a construction superintendant rebuilding a grain elevator that had blown up. They are heavier than a normal aluminum doubloon. Dad always believed they were
actual gold and silver. Clad, solid, colored brass, I do not know. Nice artwork on them however. Mel