Dennis Tucker forwarded this request for information by author (and E-Sylum reader) Katie Jaeger. -Editor Whitman Publishing author Katherine Jaeger is preparing for upcoming editions of A Guide Book of United States Tokens and Medals. She seeks full-color photographs and information to expand the book’s coverage of the following exonumia categories:
- Merchant tokens from the states of South Carolina, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
- Civil War tokens (storecards) from the states of Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, and Virginia
- Sutler tokens: any
- Lumber company tokens
- 20th-century military commissary tokens
- Prison commissary tokens
- Gambling-machine tokens
- Music-machine tokens
- Transportation tokens
- State sales-tax tokens
- Emergency relief-tax tokens
- Food-stamp change tokens
- Movie tokens
- Medals of the space program
- Exposition souvenirs
- Arras (wedding) tokens
- Commemoratives of 1858–1861 (diesinkers’ and coin dealers’ medals
- Augustus B. Sage tokens, odd mulings)
- Franklin Mint coin medals
- Presidential campaign medals and tokens (supportive pieces, satirical pieces, ferrotypes)
- Political-cause medals and tokens (abolitionist)
- Inaugural medals, 1790s–1830s
- Indian Peace medals, 1800s
- Abraham Lincoln medals/tokens, 1800s to early 1900s
- Academic medals, 1770s to early 1850
- Firefighters’ medals, 19th century
- Membership medals, 1890s to current
- Love tokens and engraved coins
- Enameled coins
Collectors with information may contact Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker at dennis.tucker@whitmanbooks.com or 404-235-5348.
Jaeger will also be at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money, August 5–8, autographing copies of the Guide Book of United States Tokens and Medals and the award-winning 100 Greatest American Medals and Tokens (which she coauthored with Q. David Bowers).
Wayne Homren, Editor
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