Read All About Tokens and Medals

Honesty Is the Best Policy

March 7, 2025

6 min read

The owner of a Kentucky taxi business restored customers’ confidence in the industry by focusing on safety and integrity.

Honesty Is the Best Policy

The Royal Economic Society of Havana Medal

February 20, 2025

3 min read

Havana's Royal Economic Society of Friends issued medals of oxidized silver as a mark of distinction for its members.

The Royal Economic Society of Havana Medal

Tokens from the Fringe

February 10, 2025

4 min read

The ANA Library helped this author with his research on the connection between American hobo nickels and Australian convict tokens.

Tokens from the Fringe

Living Statues

February 7, 2025

5 min read

The Franklin Museum advertised its risqué entertainment featuring women posing as statues  by counterstamping circulating coinage.

Living Statues

Ugly…but Oh So Rare!

January 7, 2025

5 min read

A maverick token that only a collector could love turned out to be issued by a previously unknown Virginia merchant.

Ugly…but Oh So Rare!

Vicksburg Peace Jubilee

December 6, 2024

5 min read

Union and Confederate veterans celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the Civil War’s end in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Vicksburg Peace Jubilee

Coast to Coast Bicycle Race

November 7, 2024

5 min read

It took bicyclists less than two weeks to complete transcontinental relay races across the United States in 1896 and 1934.

Coast to Coast Bicycle Race

Underground Wealth

October 7, 2024

6 min read

North Carolina mining companies issued tokens in small quantities that could be redeemed for merchandise at their stores.

Underground Wealth

Bottoms Up!

September 12, 2024

3 min read

A 19th-century liquor wholesaler issued a merchant token to drum up business at his Tacoma-based establishment.

Bottoms Up!

Trip Cancellation

September 9, 2024

5 min read

A medal was issued for President William McKinley’s planned visit to Montana in 1901, but the tour never took place.

Trip Cancellation

Tracking Down Mavericks

August 7, 2024

5 min read

Uncommon names and unusual locations are helpful clues when trying to identify tokens issued by unknown merchants.

Tracking Down Mavericks

Effervescent Remedy

July 2, 2024

4 min read

A chemist who developed a drug to relieve headaches relied heavily on all forms of advertising to promote his cure.

Effervescent Remedy

Tokens & Medals

Honesty Is the Best Policy

The Royal Economic Society of Havana Medal

Tokens from the Fringe

Living Statues

Ugly…but Oh So Rare!

Vicksburg Peace Jubilee

Coast to Coast Bicycle Race

Underground Wealth

Bottoms Up!

Trip Cancellation

Tracking Down Mavericks

Effervescent Remedy