Now here's something I don't get to see every day.....my WEED Tokens on a website

coinsarefun · August 18, 2013 2:50PM

Going through some websites tonight doing some research and ran across some tokens that I said.......hmmm,
how often do I find another defaced silver WEED token like mine. They are quite rare to begin with and to think I have found someone else
that has one like mine

Then the light came on and said.....oh, those are mine

Link to Lovett tokens and medals

numobri · August 18, 2013 2:56PM

Brian

LanceNewmanOCC · August 18, 2013 3:02PM

<< Then the light came on and said.....oh, those are mine

>>

yahtzee!
.

ricko · August 18, 2013 11:35PM

We have a winner.....

Cheers, RickO

Musky1011 · August 19, 2013 11:56AM

cool..have to look for one of those

NotSure · August 19, 2013 12:51PM

<< Then the light came on and said.....oh, those are mine

>>

Then the munchies set in.........

magikbilly · August 19, 2013 1:03PM

Your own tokens? Who says anything about short term memory

Ah, a tokin' token.

Why oak leaves and not tobacco or other? They look like oak laves - are they?

Eric

NotSure · August 19, 2013 1:11PM

<< Your own tokens? Who says anything about short term memory

Ah, a tokin' token. >>

Short term memory? Nah....just another BS excuse for 'the man' to control it...or something like that, I think, maybe...what was I trying to get at? Ah, the hell with it. I'm hungry....lol

coinsarefun · August 19, 2013 1:34PM

<< Your own tokens? Who says anything about short term memory

Ah, a tokin' token.

Why oak leaves and not tobacco or other? They look like oak laves - are they?

Eric >>

Maybe they are dry weed leaves

johnny9434 · August 20, 2013 5:25AM

ColonelJessup · August 20, 2013 6:52AM

So that's what Willie Nelson looked like when he was younger.

coinsarefun · August 20, 2013 9:15AM

<< So that's what Willie Nelson looked like when he was younger.

>>

This is his twin brother

magikbilly · August 20, 2013 12:46PM

<< 

<< Your own tokens? Who says anything about short term memory

Ah, a tokin' token.

Why oak leaves and not tobacco or other? They look like oak laves - are they?

Eric >>

Maybe they are dry weed leaves

>>

But the cola would be so much prettier than leaves...
Dried tobacco leaves don't look like this so I am guessing they are indeed oak? Are there any US coins with tobacco leaves on them? I imagine a good bit of odd stuff will be on the Commems.

Eric

coinsarefun · August 20, 2013 12:53PM

Hi Eric, I was just kiddin ya about the weed leaves

Off hand I don't recall any tobacco leaves on US coins, but I do have a CWT that has tabacco.

braddick · August 20, 2013 12:57PM

Those cut marks leave a prominence as this item was used to assist with cutting off the tip of cigars.

magikbilly · August 20, 2013 2:51PM

<< Hi Eric, I was just kiddin ya about the weed leaves

Off hand I don't recall any tobacco leaves on US coins, but I do have a CWT that has tabacco.

>>

Hi

That is really nice - thank you. You covered rice, cotton and sugar all on one side! Clothes, sweets, smoke and drink on one coin - awesome!

Eric

coinsarefun · August 20, 2013 3:42PM

<< 

Hi

That is really nice - thank you. You covered rice, cotton and sugar all on one side! Clothes, sweets, smoke and drink on one coin - awesome!

Eric >>

Here is some more sweets and breads

Hard times tokens from 1833- 1843

magikbilly · August 20, 2013 3:52PM

Cool. I took a ride on your sigline link and that is some nice stuff there at your toned type registry set - I recognize the SBA from a while back immediately. Never saw one that nice! Also the SLQ and the beautiful 21 Morgan - beautiful.

Eric

coinsarefun · August 20, 2013 4:01PM

Thanks Eric.

If you want to see my token registry

And my British Provincial's are here

magikbilly · August 20, 2013 4:57PM

Ah! A WF token

I am a serious 1939 NYWF image collector but love to see anything related and your 1853 NY token certainly fits the bill. I just bought a 1939 token in bronze on the original card grading MS65 with a rev portrait of Washington that would give the 25C a run for its...money. The usual rev is a scene of the 1781 inauguration. I had one years ago, a spinner too, but the card was royal blue and reddish orange and it did not match the rest of my memorabilia collection which is color coordinated so I gave it to someone. A few years when I was gearing up to illustrate the '39 portion of the NBM Designing Tomorrow WF text that accompanied the DC exhibit of the same name I decided to finish the memorabilia collection, and so the new example is closer to the blue and orange of most 1939 Fair items. Finishing the collection...there were over 25,000 official souvenirs and goodness knows how many premiums and whatnot so I stick to certain © NYWF stuff sold only at the souvenir stands at the Fair and only dated 1939 (lots of stuff is dated 1940 or bears no date). I know the so-called dollar from 1939 has an HK # but I do not know if all the bronze and brass/copper Fair tokens have been listed in some book or other.

Great stuff and awesome eye for cohesion, beginning, middle and end, variety and inclusion in your sets. The mark of thoughtful collector IMHO

Eric

The exhibit above is actually still touring the country - from DC to ? to NY and now it is at the Henry Ford Museum until September. I'd recommend it, but the show, and book (despite my best efforts), were awful

I removed the items I loaned (a section of a building) and am left with bad memories and a cheap book. Oh well. Looking to new horizons.

WDP · March 15, 2017 2:36PM

@coinsrfun posted, Going through some websites tonight doing some research and ran across some tokens that I said.......hmmm, how often do I find another defaced silver WEED token like mine. They are quite rare to begin with and to think I have found someone else that has one like mine

Then the light came on and said.....oh, those are mine

I was trying to find a photo of an example of the silver "NO PLEASURE CAN EXCEED / THE SMOKING OF THE WEED" token shown below today. I too came across multiple photos of different websites of your example of this token in silver! I also found your 2013 PCGS Forum posting on this subject and token.

It took quite a bit of searching to find the token photo that I was looking for online, but I finally did. This token is ex. Stack's Hick & Dice Sale, July 28, 2008:3460 and was also struck in silver.

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Photo courtesy of Stack's-Bowers.

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carabonnair · March 15, 2017 2:48PM

@coinsarefun said:

Off hand I don't recall any tobacco leaves on US coins, but I do have a CWT that has tabacco.

On the Flying Eagle Cents - "The reverse is an agricultural wreath composed of corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco." This was copied from the earlier $1 and $3 gold pieces.

Now here's something I don't get to see every day.....my WEED Tokens on a website

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