I received these a couple days ago. Both are Masonic tokens from lodges in Brooklyn, NY:
I recently acquired a book on Masonic Chapter Pennies, In case you didn't know, There are 8 different ones listed in the book for Orient Chapter 138. And the Joppa Lodge 201 is not in the book. I really like the design of the Lodge 201.
Westover is a big USAF airbase, near where I live.
I wonder when this was in use?
The reference by Paul Cunningham on Military tokens shows that there are denominations of 5¢, 25¢ and 1 dollar. The 5 cent and 25 cent according to the book says Meyer & Wenthe produced the 5 cent and 25 cent with purchase orders of 500 and 200 respectively in February 1970. Nothing mentioned about orders of the 1 Dollar. Also, according to the book there are blue colored aluminum pieces exactly like the ones above in the same denominations.
Westover is a big USAF airbase, near where I live.
I wonder when this was in use?
The reference by Paul Cunningham on Military tokens shows that there are denominations of 5¢, 25¢ and 1 dollar. The 5 cent and 25 cent according to the book says Meyer & Wenthe produced the 5 cent and 25 cent with purchase orders of 500 and 200 respectively in February 1970. Nothing mentioned about orders of the 1 Dollar. Also, according to the book there are blue colored aluminum pieces exactly like the ones above in the same denominations.
This one is aluminum, 3.33g, 35mm, and may have once been colored blue…
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
This one is aluminum, 3.33g, 35mm, and may have once been colored blue…
All 6 are aluminum and and each denomination (silver or blue) is the same size(5 Cent 22mm and 25 Cent 28mm). No weight given. Reference numbers are for the 1 Dollar are MA270c (Silver aluminum) and MA270f (Blue Aluminum). my suggestion would be to create a page with 2 year lines. I would not put silver on the comments on the year line. Instead explain in the general comments and have a Variety 1 and Variety 2 on the dateline comments. Like this one:
So done, waiting for review. I got this out of a big dollar-a-piece bin at an antique shop. I havent dug to the bottom of that bin yet, but I plan to go back there next saturday and hopefully there are some more of these. I got the apothacary weights out of the same bin.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
I received these a couple days ago. Both are Masonic tokens from lodges in Brooklyn, NY:
I recently acquired a book on Masonic Chapter Pennies, In case you didn't know, There are 8 different ones listed in the book for Orient Chapter 138. And the Joppa Lodge 201 is not in the book. I really like the design of the Lodge 201.
I found a website that provided a huge amount of info on it, here's an excerpt:
"JOPPA LODGE 201.
Among the last Lodges warranted in 1850 by the St. John's (or Atwood) Grand Lodge before its final dissolution, was that of Joppa, then known as No. 22. It was instituted by warrant dated July 2, 1850. The minutes of the Lodge do not show who were the charter members, nor give any record of the preliminary efforts or meetings. All that is known of its early history is that it was an offshoot of Lebanon Lodge of New York, one of the Lodges warranted by St. John's Grand Lodge."
Just got this beauty…. (well I got it a few months back, but was away for a while for work and just opened the mail that arrived while I was gone… This really is something very much modern for my collection taste, but I could not resist that lovely sailing ship… probably not yet on numista catalogue…
Just got this beauty…. (well I got it a few months back, but was away for a while for work and just opened the mail that arrived while I was gone… This really is something very much modern for my collection taste, but I could not resist that lovely sailing ship… probably not yet on numista catalogue…
Just got this beauty…. (well I got it a few months back, but was away for a while for work and just opened the mail that arrived while I was gone… This really is something very much modern for my collection taste, but I could not resist that lovely sailing ship… probably not yet on numista catalogue…
It is an arcade token. You buy them when you go in, they go in the slots of the rides, or the shooting games. and you leave when you have used them up. you arent supposed to take any with you. they are not worth anything anywhere else.
There are millions of different ones from around the world. even your country, I imagine.
Google tells me that one is from mainland China.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
