Coins and Medals

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The Genius of America Ingots Collection (Franklin Mint, 1984)  Silver



Also issued in bronze   



The last image is not the best of images.

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Early 1900's advertising watch fob for Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
The centre of the watch fob features an elaborate, high-relief detailed image of a linotype machine. The reverse reads: MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE CO.      THE LINOTYPE WAY IS THE ONLY WAY   in embossed lettering. THE GREEN DUCK CO. CHICAGO at bottom

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1920s Linotype 'Don't Worry Club' Good Luck token, manufactured by the Green Duck Co., Chicago.

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1976  Postmasters of America    Commemorative Medal   
Sterling Silver Coin from the  Franklin Mint

A Jacob Perkins press which was used to print the first 'Penny Black' stamps can be seen on the left

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Medal - The centenary of Muharram Industrial Printing Press     1985



Obverse
A drawing of the company building.

Lettering:
Moharrem Press
1885 1985
EGYPT
ALEXANDERIA

Reverse
Moharrem Press Logo.

Lettering:
العيد المئوى
شركة مطابع محرم الصناعية
تأسست عام ١٨٨٥

Translation:
Centennial
Muharram Industrial Printing Press
Founded in 1885

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Medal - VEB polygraph printing press factory Viktoria    1987
Porcelain



Obverse
Scene of the old printing house.

Reverse
Printing roller, 4-line inscription above and 3-line inscription below. Meissen logo at lower right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VIER
JAHRZEHNTE
VOLKSEIGENER
BETRIEB
100 JAHRE
DRUCKMASCHINEN
AUS
HEIDENAU
1987

Translation:  FOUR DECADES PEOPLE'S OWN OPERATION 100 YEARS PRINTING PRESSES FROM HEIDENAU


White Porcelain

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Token - Paul Dupont lithography bookstore printing



Obverse
Joined busts of Johannes Gutenberg and Aloys Senefelder.

Lettering:
GUTTEMBERG. 1436 SENEFELDER. 1796
MONTAGNY .F

Reverse
The letters P and D within a wreath formed by an oak branch and a laurel branch.

Lettering:
PRINTING BOOKSTORE LITHOGRAPHY
PD
PAUL DUPONT ET CIE

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Commemorative Medal - The Journal-Pioneer   Prince Edward Island    1965

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100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House (1892-1992)
1 Pound  Dar Al Hilal - Jurji Zaydan




Obverse: Depicts a mosque lamp within Al-Hilal that is a symbol of illumination, divided denomination and country name "Arab Republic of Egypt", dates (Hegira and Gregorian) below. Inscription "100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House (1892-1992)" above.

١٨٩٢ العيد المئوي لدار الهلال ١٩٩٢
واحد دار الهلال جنيه
جمهورية مصر العربية
١٤١٣ - ١٩٩٢

Reverse
A bust of Georgi Zidan founder of Dar El-Hilal Printing Press.

Dar Al-Hilal was founded in 1892 by Jurji Zaydan, a journalist from Beirut who had come to Egypt in the 1880s. The first issue of the monthly was published in September 1892. After Jurji Zaydan's death the journal was edited by his sons, Emile and Shukri Zaydan.

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100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House

½ Pound   Dar Al Hilal - Abbas Al-Aqqad



Obverse
A mosque lamp within Al-Hilal that is a symbol of illumination, divided denomination and country name "Arab Republic of Egypt", dates (Hegira and Gregorian) below.

Script: Arabic

Lettering:
١٨٩٢ العيد المئوي لدار الهلال ١٩٩٢
نصف دار الهلال جنيه
جمهورية مصر العربية
١٤١٣ - ١٩٩٢

Translation:
100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House
1892 1992
Half Pound
Dar Al Hilal
Arab Republic of Egypt
1413 - 1992

Reverse
A bust of Abbas Mahmoudv.

Abbas Al-Aqqad (28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964) was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic, and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. He is most famous for his "The geniuses" series [العبقريات - Abqarīyat].

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100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House
1 Pound  Dar Al Hilal - Rifa'a At-Tahtawi.



Obverse: Depicts a mosque lamp within Al-Hilal that is a symbol of illumination, divided denomination and country name "Arab Republic of Egypt", dates (Hegira and Gregorian) below. Inscription "100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House (1892-1992)" above.

١٨٩٢ العيد المئوي لدار الهلال ١٩٩٢
جنيه دار الهلال واحد
جمهورية مصر العربية
١٤١٣ - ١٩٩٢

Reverse: A bust of Rifa'a At-Tahtawi.

Rifa'a at-Tahtawi (also spelt Tahtawy, 1801–1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual. Tahtawi was among the first Egyptian scholars to write about Western cultures in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation and an understanding between Islamic and Christian civilizations. He founded a School of Languages in Cairo in 1835 and was influential in the development of science, law, literature and Egyptology in 19th-century Egypt. His work influenced that of many later scholars, such as Muhammad Abduh.

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100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House
5 Pounds  Dar Al Hilal - Taha Hussein



Obverse: Depicts a mosque lamp within Al-Hilal that is a symbol of illumination, divided denomination and country name "Arab Republic of Egypt", dates (Hegira and Gregorian) below. Inscription "100th Anniversary of Dar Al Hilal Publishing House (1892-1992)" above.

١٨٩٢ العيد المئوي لدار الهلال ١٩٩٢
خمسة دار الهلال جنيهات
جمهورية مصر العربية
١٤١٣ - ١٩٩٢

Reverse: Depicts a bust of Taha Hussein

Taha Hussein (1889–1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Egyptian Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Middle East and North Africa. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي). He was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature fourteen times.

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Token - Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung  1931




Obverse
Lettering:
LESSEN SIE DONNERSTAG UNSEREN NEUEN GROSSEN ROMAN
Berliner Ilustrirte Zeitung

Translation:
Read Wednesday our new big Novel
Berlin Illustrated Newspaper

Reverse
Lettering:
NEUER ROMAN VON CARL BULCKE IN DER BERLINER ILLUSTRIRTEN

".. und so
verbringst
Du Deine
kurzen
Tage .."

Translation:
New Novel by Carl Bulcke in the the Berlin Illustrated
and so you spend your short days

The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (Berlin illustrated newspaper, or BIZ) was a weekly illustrated magazine published in Germany from 1882 to 1945 by the Berlin-based Ullstein Verlag. With a circulation of more than one million by 1920 and more than two million in the 1930s

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Brass Token - The Cleveland Leader Newspaper, Cleveland, Ohio

I have no date for these but I assume the aluminum tokens are later





This token also came in aluminum

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Commemorative issue      50 Dirhams - Khalifa Oumolat     (United Arab Emirates
Official Opening of Oumolat Security Printing (9 March 2017)





Obverse
Denomination in Arabic characters surrounded by name of the country

Lettering:
دولة الإمارات العَربيّة المتّحدة
٥٠
درهماً
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Translation:
United Arab Emirates
50 Dirhams

Reverse
Logo and occasion

Lettering:
عملات
oumolat
عملات للطباعة الأمنية
OUMOLAT SECURITY PRINTING
9 مارس 2017

Translation:
Oumolat (Currencies)
Oumolat Security Printing
9 March 2017