Anyone know what A 1964 New York World's Fair Token is Worth?

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  Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:34AM

  A couple bucks.
  
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  meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭

  January 11, 2005 11:38AM

  I like the design very much.

  I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!
  
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  BillJones Posts: 35,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:46AM

  I have one those in bronze. It's the usual modern "yellow bronze," which is disappointing, but it's still a nice keepsake. And the design is in high relief and quite pleasing. I remember that World's Fair quite well. My high school band marched at it during the summer of '65.
  
  Is the piece you posted made of silver or white metal, MrSpud? If it is silver, it would have a melt value of about $10. I think the smaller version, which was made of something other than bronze was silver; but I can't remember for certain. It's been almost 40 years ...

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  MrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:51AM

  The one I saw was silver and was about as big as a Morgan and had a 3-D look to it with the globe sticking out in very high relief. I saw one of these at lunchtime in a little antique store that is in an outlet mall across the street from where I work. I thought it looked interesting but had no idea of what it is worth. I did a search on e-bay and found the one in the picture that looks identical to the one I saw. The one on e-bay was a buy it now auction for about double what they wanted in the antique store, so it got me curious.

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  cladking Posts: 30,162 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:54AM

  Most World's Fair medals will bring five or ten dollars though the '64 and later fairs may
  be a little less for the most common items. I've seen only a few of these in white metal
  and none in silver. This one should easily bring $5 and could go for more if someone
  wanted it specifically.

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  MrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:58AM

  The one I saw looked like silver, but it could actually have been a metal that just looked like silver.

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  BillJones Posts: 35,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2005 11:59AM

  The bronze version is a large, heavy medal, like the pieces the mint sells for more than $20 these days. It is in high relief and was struck multiple times by the Medalic Art Company. The price was something like $5 in 1965. It is much more impressive than the piece one commonly sees from the 1939 World's Fair.

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