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Members of the AVA receive the Fare Box, the monthly newsletter of the AVA. [1] [2] [3] The Fare Box contains advertisements, stories, and information about various tokens, as well as resources to buy, sell, and trade tokens. AVA members are also eligible to join the New Issue Service, which mails new transportation tokens to its members for a ...
A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Across all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. [2] The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale in November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present.
Generally, they have a merchant's name or initials, sometimes a town and state, and a value legend (such as "good for 5¢" or other denomination) somewhere on the token. Merchants that issued tokens included general stores, grocers, department stores, dairies, meat markets, drug stores, saloons, bars, taverns, barbers, coal mines, lumber mills ...
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^1 The George Washington Bicentennial half dollar was originally proposed as a traditional non-circulating commemorative coin. However, President Herbert Hoover vetoed the proposal in 1930. ^2 The Washington quarter was originally intended to be struck in 1932 only.
These very interesting tokens, although dated 1830, depict the portrait of King George III of Great Britain instead of the monarch at that time, King George IV. They were issued by both John Caine and two members of his family, John McTurk and a Mr. Carter. Catalogue numbers; MTK-120 (KMTn) 1 Penny. MTK-130 (KNTn) 1 ⁄ 2 Penny.
Evasion halfpenny, obv.: bust and inscription of George II, rev.: Britannia and date 1777, incompatible with obverse However, counterfeiters soon evaded the law by striking “coins” with designs or inscriptions slightly different from the originals; if caught, they would claim their products were different and not counterfeits. [ 1 ]
Jewel case, Jewel box or Super Jewel Box, types of Optical disc packaging Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah , at Agra is known as Jewel Box for its intricate parchin kari work Topics referred to by the same term