Numismatics Postage & Finance Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: WWII United States Department of Commerce Maritime Administration Guard Badge. The large shield shaped badge reads: "DEPT. OF COMMERCE" with the letters: "U" and "S" on either side. The center of the badge features a painted merchant marine...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1938 Pan Am medal commemorating the flight jubilee (1912-1937) and loss at Pago Pago of Captain Edwin C. Musick. Hired as Pan Am's very first pilot in 1927, unassuming and respected "Meticulous Musick" had already been,...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful bronze table medal given to passengers aboard the 1928 inaugural passenger flight undertaken by Colonial Western Airways. Colonial Western, owned by Colonial Air Lines, successfully flew out of Albany, New York with a...

ARTIFACT: This is a coin bank advertising Piscataqua Savings Bank of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from the 1910s. Piscataqua is one of Portsmouth's early banks and is still in operation, borrowing its name from the river flowing through town. The bank is...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 barrel bank decorated in rich red and gold from the Portsmouth Trust & Guarantee Company, a bank started by local brewer, politician and all-around icon Frank Jones. The bank (shaped, of course, like a barrel) has a coin...

ARTIFACT: This is a mid-1950s figural metal coin bank by Banthrico Inc. of the Dover Co-Op Bank in Dover, New Hampshire. The bank, which began in 1890 and hanged names a few times, was located in the Walker Building for years, at the corner of Locust and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s promotional good luck silver dollar holder from Beechcraft Aviation. The front shows an embossed horseshoe with the Beechcraft wing insignia inside it. The reverse reads "Good Luck To You John D. Roberts". VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a great pair of large circa 1870s or 1880s "love token" cuff links. They are made of coin silver, from an 1853 and an 1876 "Seated Liberty" quarter. The face of each has an engraved "O" in the Olde English style. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I United States Navy dog tag made out of a Portugese coin. The tag originally belonged to Allen C. Johnson, and is dated August 26, 1918 on reverse. The coin reads REI DE PORTUGAL (King of Portugal) on the front: Portugal's...

ARTIFACT: This is a postal cover in memory of the US Navy Airship USS Macon, mailed from Moffett Field, California on February 12, 1936 to a Miss Estelle Hyer of Sequim, Washington. The postal cover has two 1-1/2 cent stamps and bears the name Dudley...

ARTIFACT: This is a large unidentified Chinese "cash" coin, possibly a souvenir, of unknown vintage. The coin is roughly oval with a square hole in the center. One side has a scene in relief and the other has some characters. VINTAGE: Circa unknown...

ARTIFACT: Fabulous and probably unique WWI Service Medal present to J. Philip Smith by the town of Hull, Massachusetts on June 25, 191The 14k gold medal shows the Nantasket (Nantascot) Lighthouse on Little Brewster Island in the center in beautiful...