Cool medals/tokens

Used to take the family every year when the kids were younger. I don’t recall how these were distributed.

My understanding is that this is a "California Salute" piece given to a set group of people at political dinners, it was in its original box including it's COA. Any idea what this might be worth to the right people?

I recently sold a bunch of Pokémon cards for $1,500 and used part of those funds to help with purchasing this 1857 Hudson’s Bay Company 1/2 Made Beaver token (East Main District) from Colonial Acres Coins, graded AU-55 by ICCS. Bought it for $661.05 CAD in total. My mother helped out with the purchase as well by putting $20 towards it and paying for the tracking number to send out the order form with a money order. What do you think of it?

Picked this up at the coin show to go with my ww1 themed cabinet. First war medal I’ve owned.

Did some research and it’s a very interesting story based on his service record.

This guy Alfred David Michael, 26 in 1914, was the 127th volunteer to sign up out of Bristol, meaning he walked into the recruiting office at the absolute beginning of the war. He was a fisherman and signed up for the navy, but they didn’t have enough ships to put these guys on so they handed them a rifle and throw them into the trenches as the RNVR/RND.

Alfred likely fought as a shock trooper at Antwerp and Gallipoli, before the unit was transferred to the Western Front to fight at The Somme / Ancre. His unit was used as “over the top” tip of the spear shock troops in these campaigns, incurring horrific casualties in brutal trench warfare full of industrialized violence and rampant disease. The turnover for his unit was 300% over the full course of the war.

Somehow he physically survived all this before having a psychological break in October 1916, where he did something unknown that caused him to be sentenced to 90 days imprisonment. Somebody tried to intervene and petition for him, but the Navy did not relent.

This causes him to get discharged as essentially used up psychologically for combat (Politely termed services no longer required), sparing him from the catastrophic engagements of Arras, Ypres/Passchendaele, The German Spring Offensive at Ancre, and the Battle for The Hindenburg Line, which collectively wiped out virtually every remaining early volunteer from that regiment.

Despite the discharge, Alfred later gets the medals awarded to him, after the military begins to recognize what shell shock is, and apparently he wears them based on the wear points and rim ding.

The record of his postwar life gets spotty from there. I found a possible death record in the 50s that aligns with some of his details, but not others. No records of marriages or children in public records, but many of those have not been digitized, and being an itinerate fisherman, they were poorly recorded at the time to begin with. I’m continuing to dig more obscure sources.

Just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the incredible raw period story of an early volunteer in one of the highest casualty British units of WWI that I was able to reconstruct from an ounce of silver and the associated service records.

Posted this to r/coincollecting and they referred me here. I got some good info from them, but just wondering if anyone here has more info. Thanks!

This doesn’t look like a typical flattened penny. Does anyone recognize this?

Went through a box I hadn’t looked at in a bit, and found stuff I had gathered since I was in my early teens. Who knew?! 😝 Here they are with some of my newer ones. They are all now tucked in my military challenge coin/exonumia album 😊

Even though I found it today at the back of my desk drawer, I don't recall ever seeing this medallet, or even hearing of a "Peace Through Coinage" program. My online research hasn't turned up much: evidently it was struck by the Gallery Mint in Arkansas, but I can't identify an issuing organization behind it.

This proof-like piece appears to be dated 2000 and is about the size of a US quarter dollar. It has the heft and feel of copper-nickel or some similar alloy.

Can anyone fill in some background on who was behind this?

My girlfriend had a little box full of coins I was thumbing through and this was tossed in there with all the various other things. I can’t find too much about it other than information about the 67th squadron. Sorry if this isn’t the right sub but just thought it was neat👍🏻

Quarter

A piece that interests a few different groups

I'm also sorry, i want sure how to upload photos.

i believe it might be a fraud coin from Astroforce in the reality 90's

I acquired these a while back and figured id share them here.

Looking for information on the maker or origin of this vintage talisman pendant that belonged to my grandmother, Edith Kretzschmar (born ~1926, lived in Germany until ~1971).

Physical Details: Shape & Rim: 12-sided (dodecagon) base metal medallion with a gold-tone face and silver-tone rim/center. Has 13 holes around the border: 1 larger suspension hole at the top for a chain, and 12 smaller holes that originally held faceted glass rhinestones (2–3 original stones are still visible in the settings).

Side A: Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) spilling small hearts and coins/circles, with an Eye of Horus / All-Seeing Eye to the upper right.

Side B: Raised silver-tone Egyptian Ankh inside an interlocking Hexagram (Seal of Solomon) and a 12-pointed radiating starburst.

Inscription: The 3-letter Hebrew word נאר (Nun-Alef-Resh / Na'or) stamped between every hole on both sides (13 times per side). Does anyone recognize the specific mid-20th-century German/European metaphysical catalog, jeweler, or esoteric society that produced this piece?

Got from great grandma said it was given to her in the 1940s…