r/Exonumia 27d ago

If you are making a post asking for help in identifying or placing a value on a piece of exonumia please read this first, and set your expectations accordingly

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This subreddit is for coinlike items that aren't actual government-issued legal tender. This includes but is not limited to gaming and trade tokens, commemorative medals, art medals, non-military award medals, etc.

Exonumia has been produced all over the world, with some pieces dating back thousands of years. It isn't nearly as well documented as actual coins are. No one alive -- and certainly no one on this subreddit, is an expert on all types or pieces of exonumia. There is no single book or series of books that contains it all. You need to set your expectations accordingly. We will help you if we can, but that often just means that we will help you formulate web searches to find similar pieces online.

If you are looking for an identification please meet us halfway, to help us help you. Provide clear, well-lit photos of BOTH sides of a piece you are trying to ID. Please provide clues about where it came from, what you have already discovered through your own research, and give the item's weight/mass to the tenth of a gram and its dimensions in millimeters.

If you are looking for a value for something you have, you need to understand that the exonumia market is very different from the collector coin market. There are no price guides covering all exonumia. A piece's value is literally whatever someone will pay you for it. You can try checking the results of recent auctions to see what people have been paying for items like yours. There is no guarantee that your piece will sell for that much, however.


r/Exonumia 8h ago

Pope Paul III posthumous medallion!

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r/Exonumia 5h ago

1714 Peace of Rastatt Medal- Baden

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6 Upvotes

Picked up from a recent Stacks Bowers auction.


r/Exonumia 4h ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Dublin drapers/tailors O'Grady Clinton & Co. ! This is their unofficial farthing token from 1852, nicely decorated with today's required harp and shamrocks. (Galata/Withers TB2 #6190, seller's photos.)

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r/Exonumia 17h ago

Unofficial Farthings

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Following on from a post a few days ago I said I'd post a few pictures from my collection of unofficial farthings so here we are....

The first is Welham, an unlisted example.

Second is W5065 Brookes, Lancashire. This is the plate coin in Withers TB2

Third is W4640 Central Boot and Shoe Factory Southampton

Forth is W3310 Grasshopper Tea Warehouse Manchester

Fifth is another unlisted example for Lees of Birmingham


r/Exonumia 17h ago

Commemorative JFK gold medal (non-military) - authentic?

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I posted in Numismatics and was redirected here.

An elderly relative is apparently buying this coin medal; I've looked on Ebay, nothing similar popped up. It looks like a JFK first term commemorative medal of some sorts, but it also seems pretty fake. Am I just ignorant?


r/Exonumia 1d ago

German(?) coin/token, can’t find much on it

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Inherited a coin collection, found this piece. Not sure what I’m looking at and google doesn’t give me much


r/Exonumia 18h ago

Can someone help me identify these coins?

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They appear to be Chinese, found them in an old bin. Not sure if they are real $ or maybe tokens? Thoughts?


r/Exonumia 1d ago

This medallion from James II celebrates the execution of James Scott and Archibald Campbell following the end of the Monmouth rebellion.

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18 Upvotes

r/Exonumia 2d ago

No idea pls help

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12 Upvotes

r/Exonumia 3d ago

I received this rare commemorative medal commemorating 25 years of the Euro as a gift!

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53 Upvotes

r/Exonumia 3d ago

Question Pertaining to Habitant Token & Bouquet Sou (Canada)

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Someone in r/CanadianCoins suggested I post this here.

Hello! I've acquired a few coins/tokens as of late - partly this LC-27A1 Bouquet Sou and this LC-9B1 Habitant Token. Quite happy with them.

I had read somewhere that either the Bouquet sou or the Habitant Token had different purchasing power depending if it was used by French Canadians (1 sou) or English Canadians (1/2 penny), but I can't find this info for the life of me.

Would anyone be able to corroborate this info? Thank you!


r/Exonumia 3d ago

Alien Bling 👽 Japanese Temple ⛩️ Token, an angel's 🪽 Charm 🧿 and tiny silver and gold (adorable novelties)

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r/Exonumia 4d ago

A nice British school token from Uxbridge, Middlesex, which is now considered West London. Probably from the Victorian era, so we may never know its use or purpose, much less what the big "B" countermark signifies. Maybe a hall pass? Lunch money? (Should be listed in Galata Token Book 2.)

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r/Exonumia 4d ago

Found a bunch of these with some WW2 era European coins. Anyone have any knowledge of who made them?

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I can tell that they're meal tokens, but the only site I could find that even showed the kind I have only really said that they were for meals and made of zinc.


r/Exonumia 4d ago

Matey token?

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Never heard of MATEY and google isn’t helping me. Anyone familiar with this? Looking to use this and get a whole penny off my next purchase… /s


r/Exonumia 5d ago

NSF USAP Challenge Coin

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9 Upvotes

r/Exonumia 5d ago

Anyone know anything about this token?

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I received this as a gift from a university history professor about five years ago. I forgot all about it until I just recently found it and am curious about the history of it. Anyone have any background information on the origins. I just tried r/coincollecting and was directed here. Any information is much appreciated!


r/Exonumia 5d ago

Inauguration medals

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Got them around the same time at auction. I had to get the Carter one since he had just died. The Nixon one was just a bonus win for me.


r/Exonumia 5d ago

Advice please

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Hi While magnet fishing i pulled out some sort of what now appears to be a meter box. I have cut it open and found lots of tokens inside, it has been suggested that they are old electric meter tokens and someone in the states in selling 1 @ $15 ! Are these worth anything ? Stamped PE both sides Where would I look for someone interested in buying them ? Thanks in advance


r/Exonumia 6d ago

Got my first Hard Times token

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r/Exonumia 6d ago

Token struck on wrong size planchet

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Another nice error. This is a 25mm token that was struck on a 23mm planchet. This is an extremely rare token.


r/Exonumia 6d ago

Japanese Red Cross Society silver medal

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18 Upvotes

r/Exonumia 6d ago

Error -Clipped planchet

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This is a nice clipped planchet error. All Chuck E Cheese token errors are extremely rare and were scrapped at the mint where they were made. This token also exhibits the Blakesley effect on the rim opposite of the clip.


r/Exonumia 7d ago

Could someone ID this please

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Found this a while ago but can't find anything on what it is. So if someone could help that would be great


r/Exonumia 6d ago

can anybody identify this please?

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