A library for people who collect the pieces that were never money.
Tokens, medals and so-called dollars have their own mints, their own catalogs and their own societies. This page keeps the good ones in one place.
The library
Mints and makers
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Moonlight Mint
Daniel Carr's private mint in Colorado. Medals, tokens and fantasy pieces struck on his own presses, with open-house dates posted on the site.
moonlightmint.com
References and catalogs
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So-Called Dollars
The online companion to Hibler and Kappen's reference, kept by the Coin & Currency Institute. Look up HK numbers, varieties and pieces the book never listed.
so-calleddollars.com -
Newman Numismatic Portal
Washington University's free digital library: auction catalogs, periodicals and decades of the TAMS Journal, all searchable.
nnp.wustl.edu -
Numista
A collector-built catalog of coins, tokens and medals from every country, with photographs and collection tracking.
numista.com -
Medallic Art Company archive
The American Numismatic Society holds the records and some 20,000 pre-1998 dies of the Medallic Art Company, maker of the Pulitzer, Newbery and presidential inaugural medals from 1903 until its 2018 bankruptcy.
numismatics.org
Societies
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Token and Medal Society
The hobby's society since 1960. Publishes the TAMS Journal and keeps the maverick database for tokens nobody has attributed yet.
tokenandmedal.org
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