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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: JANUARY 24, 2021Here's a selection of interesting or unusual items I came across in the marketplace this week. Tell us what you think of some of these. -Editor
Bruttium, Caulonia. Silver Nomos 
Bruttium, Caulonia. Silver Nomos, c. 475-425 BC. Obverse: ??V? (retrograde), Apollo, nude, advancing right, holding a laurel branch, small daimon running on his left arm. Stag in right field. Reverse: ??V (retrograde), stag standing right, laurel branch to right. (HN Italy 2046).
From Baldwin's online Virtual New York Show List 2021. A nice spare and stylized design. -Editor
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St. Paul Minnesota Steamboat Note 
St. Paul, MN- Treasurer of Ramsey County $5 18__ Remainder Hewitt C320-D5-2 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. The $5 is your cataloger's favorite note from this series with great visual appeal created by the red design elements as well as a spectacular steamboat vignette.
Great steamboat vignette. From Heritage. -Editor
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1879 British North Borneo Pattern Cent 
British North Borneo - Sulu - Brunei, 1 cent, superb toned PATTERN PROOF, 1879, NGC PF 64 BN, unlisted by Pridmore, obverse: "Al Sultan Muhammad Jamala'l-a'zam, tahun ba hijra sanat 1295" (Sultan Muhammad Jamala'l-a'zam year 2 from 1295h = 1878). reverse: "Misraf bernaja (belanja) suga (suku) harga hinglis (English) humbak (habuk) perak" (Petty money current at 100 to the silver dollar).
THE FIRST COINAGE FOR BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 1878. These were denominated in cents, half cents, and quarter cents of a silver dollar. When Major Pridmore learned of the planned issue he researched and published them in the Spink Numismatic Circular.
Offered by SPINK. -Editor
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Tenino Wooden Sales Tax Chit 
Tenino, WA- Penny's Garage 1/5th Cent Sales Tax Chit ND (ca. 1930s) Mint (as made). This sales tax token could be used to pay sales tax on small purchases and is made out of wood. It would have been in use during the Great Depression. Tenino was known for its wooden money issues in the 1930s. We have offered one other similar piece from a different business in Tenino (Jiffy Lunch) that sold for $176 in 2015.
The OTHER Tenino wooden money. Cool - I wasn't aware of these private issues. From Heritage's 24-JAN sale. -Editor
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Churchill Navy Medal 
France WINSTON CHURCHILL bronze 68mm by Turin
Fron the Hedley Betts eBay store. I'd never seen a coin or medal depicting Churchill with a military cap. -Editor
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