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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

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  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭

    Wow . . . Never seen that before!

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 28, 2018 3:09AM

    @halfhunter said:
    Wow . . . Never seen that before!

    Nice badge.

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is neat. Is that nickel plated brass?

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a cool find.... I search antique shops and yard sales for oddities such as this....Not very lucky so far... Though last year I came across a set of micro weights for a scale balance... complete in it's original wooden box, for $3. Scooped that up real fast. Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :)

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    way cool

  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is FS-102, filled A in GUARD. Cool and worth a premium. :o

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  • KudbegudKudbegud Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can you issue parking tickets?


  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can you FIX parking tickets???

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  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat find!

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I expected to see something more like this. But you can pin your badge to it.

  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,490 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ

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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,490 ✭✭✭✭✭

    might as well check out this one too: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XT8hE7_8BCY&frags=wn

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  • coinpalicecoinpalice Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the original owner of that badge had a dangerous job

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Batman23 said:
    That is neat. Is that nickel plated brass?

    Yes, I think so.

    Moonlight Mint
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:
    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

    Thanks.
    Even though I don't need no stinkin' badges, I'm keeping this one.

    But I'm curious, what your exhibit is (if you are willing to divulge that) ?

    Moonlight Mint
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice find, I like it.

    Donato

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool! How big is the badge?

    John
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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @messydesk said:
    Cool! How big is the badge?

    A little bigger than a silver dollar: about 1-5/8" x 1-1/2"
    It is also fairly thick. Quite a bit thicker that the typical embossed badges.

    Moonlight Mint
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love it! That's a very cool pin and very fitting with your collection and mint.

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:
    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

    Thanks.
    Even though I don't need no stinkin' badges, I'm keeping this one.

    But I'm curious, what your exhibit is (if you are willing to divulge that) ?

    It's titled "Mint By-Products". Basically it consists of mostly items from the US Mint that weren't meant to be collected. I've been working on it for some time. It's pretty much finished except the final layout. However, there's always room to add new items. Some of the items it presently consists of are: Obverse, reverse, and collar dies with some design still showing; a die with a rim cud evident; Feeder Fingers; Planchet strip (punched and unpunched); planchet strip with overlapping holes, i.e. produced clipped planchets; Normal blanks and planchets as well as clipped blanks and planchets; cut up web scrap and waffled blanks and struck coins; proof pellets; plastic die caps; canvas bags; various error coins.

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:
    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

    Thanks.
    Even though I don't need no stinkin' badges, I'm keeping this one.

    But I'm curious, what your exhibit is (if you are willing to divulge that) ?

    It's titled "Mint By-Products". Basically it consists of mostly items from the US Mint that weren't meant to be collected. I've been working on it for some time. It's pretty much finished except the final layout. However, there's always room to add new items. Some of the items it presently consists of are: Obverse, reverse, and collar dies with some design still showing; a die with a rim cud evident; Feeder Fingers; Planchet strip (punched and unpunched); planchet strip with overlapping holes, i.e. produced clipped planchets; Normal blanks and planchets as well as clipped blanks and planchets; cut up web scrap and waffled blanks and struck coins; proof pellets; plastic die caps; canvas bags; various error coins.

    That sounds pretty neat.
    I could make a display like that with some of the stuff I have ;)
    (But no, I'm not planning on actually doing that).

    Moonlight Mint
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,968 ✭✭✭✭✭

    VERY cool B) . I had no idea what I was going to see when I opened this post. You always impress me.

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:
    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

    Thanks.
    Even though I don't need no stinkin' badges, I'm keeping this one.

    But I'm curious, what your exhibit is (if you are willing to divulge that) ?

    It's titled "Mint By-Products". Basically it consists of mostly items from the US Mint that weren't meant to be collected. I've been working on it for some time. It's pretty much finished except the final layout. However, there's always room to add new items. Some of the items it presently consists of are: Obverse, reverse, and collar dies with some design still showing; a die with a rim cud evident; Feeder Fingers; Planchet strip (punched and unpunched); planchet strip with overlapping holes, i.e. produced clipped planchets; Normal blanks and planchets as well as clipped blanks and planchets; cut up web scrap and waffled blanks and struck coins; proof pellets; plastic die caps; canvas bags; various error coins.

    That sounds pretty neat.
    I could make a display like that with some of the stuff I have ;)
    (But no, I'm not planning on actually doing that).

    You should, and/or show pictures of stuff you have here.

    http://www.SmallDollars.com
  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very Cool :#

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One of the biggest maker of badges ever was a company called Meyer & Wenthe in Chicago. This does not look like their work, but is there by any chance a maker's mark on the back?

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Timbuk3 said:
    Sweet !!! :)

    +1

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thought maybe those badges were "struck" with some of that melted silver from the 64-D Peace Dollars. :)

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:

    @dcarr said:

    @MWallace said:
    Very, very cool. This is the exact type of thing I've been looking for to go into an exhibit I've been working on.

    Thanks.
    Even though I don't need no stinkin' badges, I'm keeping this one.

    But I'm curious, what your exhibit is (if you are willing to divulge that) ?

    It's titled "Mint By-Products". Basically it consists of mostly items from the US Mint that weren't meant to be collected. I've been working on it for some time. It's pretty much finished except the final layout. However, there's always room to add new items. Some of the items it presently consists of are: Obverse, reverse, and collar dies with some design still showing; a die with a rim cud evident; Feeder Fingers; Planchet strip (punched and unpunched); planchet strip with overlapping holes, i.e. produced clipped planchets; Normal blanks and planchets as well as clipped blanks and planchets; cut up web scrap and waffled blanks and struck coins; proof pellets; plastic die caps; canvas bags; various error coins.

    That sounds pretty neat.
    I could make a display like that with some of the stuff I have ;)
    (But no, I'm not planning on actually doing that).

    You should, and/or show pictures of stuff you have here.

    A lot of it is already shown here: moonlightmint.com/artifacts.htm
    Maybe I can photograph some of the other stuff at some point.

    Moonlight Mint
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    One of the biggest maker of badges ever was a company called Meyer & Wenthe in Chicago. This does not look like their work, but is there by any chance a maker's mark on the back?

    There is no maker's mark on it.
    It appear to be old, with long-term light wear.
    It also appears to have been cast in the basic shape, and then the lettering stamped like an ingot.

    Moonlight Mint
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Possibly made by the Mint itself!

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's cool!

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    Possibly made by the Mint itself!

    Possibly. That would be neat. Hard to prove, though.

    Moonlight Mint
  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 30, 2018 1:20PM

    I didn't even know these existed until Dan posted his. I found another, but different, one on eBay. I don't know the seller.
    https://ebay.com/itm/U-S-MINT-GUARD-BADGE-1st-ISSUE-1870-1920s/323068406640?hash=item4b3860ab70:g:SM8AAOSwFnxaagNd

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:
    I didn't even know these existed until Dan posted his. I found another, but different, one on eBay. I don't know the seller.
    https://ebay.com/itm/U-S-MINT-GUARD-BADGE-1st-ISSUE-1870-1920s/323068406640?hash=item4b3860ab70:g:SM8AAOSwFnxaagNd

    I saw that listing a few days ago. Pretty expensive asking price ($2,500), although it is probably older than mine (but not a lot older and not from Denver). From the style it looks like 1892-1916 timeframe.

    Mine was $206.65:
    https://ebay.com/itm/163000637400

    Moonlight Mint
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,286 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One of my friends in law enforcement had me bid (nuclear , in my view) on a badge online, once. ( bid to win in auction ). I think he would LOVE that. Having heard first hand, from you, what you like to collect, am still keeping my eyes open for such. Nice find and thanks for sharing. That's a very interesting piece of history.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought it was going to be a t-shirt with this on it;

    Seriously, way cool badge though!

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