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Dedicated to the history of Wooden Nickels, and their many different uses, such as souvenirs, tokens, coupons, collecting, trade pieces, state fairs, and centennials.
http://www.wooden-nickel.net/
What is an encased coin? Learn about 'The Penny Man' - Earl Fankhauser - the most prolific maker of encased coins in history.
http://www.geocities.com/encased1
A club for collectors of 18th century British tradesmens tokens, also called Conder tokens, and related literature.
http://conderclub.homestead.com/index.html
Catalog of tokens issued by nine Columbus, Ohio, merchants during the Civil War.
http://home.columbus.rr.com/tebben/COLUMBUSCWT/default.html
Information about collecting Mardi Gras doubloons and other Mardi Gras memorabilia.
http://doubloony.tripod.com/
Information on tokens and token collecting. Includes tokens of all kinds, but focuses on modern arcade tokens. Also trade lists and token links.
http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/
A collection of Military Coins from all Branches of the Service.
http://www.challengecoins.com/
Educational site with historical articles on trade tokens, bar checks, bingles, seco, metal chits, parking tokens, and good fors.
http://members.fortunecity.com/tokenguy/tokentales/
News, links and a bibliography for the Conder enthusiast.
http://www.unsogno.net/conders
Pictures and information on the artists of this period.
http://www.finemedals.com/
Details the history of Southern African trade tokens. Includes information, images and links.
http://www.tokencoins.com/
A personal site with images and references for European medals, primarily French, of this era.
http://blackwatch.napoleonicmedals.org/
A personal website of medals from around the world with images, references, and background information.
http://www.historicalartmedals.com/
TAMS is the largest educational non-profit organization devoted to furthering the exonumia field, consisting of tokens, medals, badges and other related items. Issues the TAMS Journal 6 times annually, free classified ads. About 1600 members.
http://www.money.org/clubs/tams/index.html
Primarily for trading arcade, batting cage and amusement type tokens but other types of tokens (transportation, carwash) are available.
http://www.geocities.com/btokens/trading.html
New Orleans Mardi Gras Doubloons for Trade. Most Krewes, Knights and many marching clubs. Dubloons are classified by organization, year, material and color.
http://noladoubloons.moonfruit.com
Online transportation token database. Thousands of tokens displayed along with descriptions, size, composition, city, state, year minted, and value.
http://www.exonumist.com
This site shows the tokens and medals from the 1905 L&C Centennial Expo in Portland Oregon.
http://home.earthlink.net/%7emrjohngilbert/COLLEC.html
This site illustrates and lists books about Papal medals by Adolfo Modesti.
http://www.papalmedals.it/en/index.html
Introduces 17th, 18th and 19th century British tokens, including Conder tokens with images, recommended books and dealers.
http://grogansite.homestead.com/index.html
This site lists and describes Dutch parking and car wash tokens with many not cataloged coffee bar, disco machine and amusement tokens.
http://www.dutchtokens.com/
A non commercial site displaying color images of most Goetz medals by Keinast numbers.
http://www.karlgoetz.com/
Fine images of choice Conder tokens in full color, arranged by county and DH number.
http://thecondercabinet.homestead.com/