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Iceberg77
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Hey everybody CU Forum Newbie here,
I've been a coin collector since way back when I was in Cub Scouts. I only collect raw coins, I don't have any slabbed coins in my collection but I have 3 albums full of each denomination except one wheat penny album and I am only missing the 1909 S VDB, the other 2 wheat albums have the 09 S VDB.
About 3 years ago I decided to start collecting tokens, I started off by buying some bulk deals on Ebay or from a LCS. Needless to say I got bored with those bulk buys and decided to concentrate on towns/counties I have lived in and Military bases I was stationed at and their surrounding communities. I was stationed in Korea for 2½ years with the 2nd Infantry Division and have found quite a few of those.
To help me in my Military token adventure I have both of Cunningham's military token books and O'Donnell's Book of Military Tokens of Korea.
Look forward to learning more about coins and tokens from this site
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Welcome. Sounds like you are on a great start. I also collect raw coins that interest me, but very few tokens. Good luck and hope to see some pics. Especially of your 09 S VDB's, the only one I lack for my collection.
Jim
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Welcome! Please feel free to post pics. We love sharing our coins here.
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As stated by @TurtleCat, please post pictures and remember coins have 2 sides.
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Welcome to the forum Iceberg77. Glad to have you aboard.
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There are a lot of devoted token collectors here. You're going to learn a lot and have some great fun.
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You will learn a lot and make some great connections.
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@Iceberg77.... Welcome aboard.... There are great people here and experts in all areas of coins and tokens. Have fun... Cheers, RickO
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So many cool coins and tokens and stuff.
You're starting off on the right track. Friend Paul Cunningham's two volume set (are they really 25+ years old???) are still the standard catalogs for military tokens. They give you a very good overview of what's out there and a dated price guide that still is good for determining relative rarity. There have been a lot of new discoveries over those years; unfortunately there is not an on-line gathering place for the additions. You might take a look at several works by Sgt. Ray Bows on Viet Nam War era tokens (although the Cunningham catalog Volume II covers the series pretty well using a lot of input from the late John Shillinglaw's work on U.S - Viet Nam tokens). It's a world encompassing subset of exonumia.
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