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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: OCTOBER 15, 2023Here'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
Square Drachm of Apollodotos I 
BACTRIA: Apollodotos I, ca. 180-160 BC, AR square drachm (2.33g), Bop-4G, elephant right, monogram below // humped bull right, monogram below, lightly wavy flan, VF. My wife collects elephants (not real ones), so this piece in the Stephen Album Internet Auction 23 caught my eye. It's also an unusual shape - I think this is the first coin I've seen of this era that's square. -Editor
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1927 Canadian Five Cent Piece 
Canada 1927 5 Cents PCGS MS65 $1,250
I've always liked the Canadian nickels. Nice clean, balanced design with a bold "5". From the Northeast Numismatics website. -Editor
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First Commemorative Mint Item 
Laminated photograph of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn on board, and coins from 1940 given as a token to the members of R' Michel's minyan. Inserted into the original plastic folding booklet. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn- June 1880 – 28 January 1950, was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement. He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz (an acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak). After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave; he continued to conduct the struggle from Latvia, and then Poland, and eventually the United States, where he spent the last ten years of his life. This odd item had me scratching my head - why does it exist? What do a handful of circulated U.S. coins have to do with the subject? "First Commemorative Mint Inc." is still around and their website says they were established in 2002, so this was assembled long after the 1940s. -Editor
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Victor Demanet Art Medal 
Belgium, Medal, Art Déco, Le Travailleur, 1976, Victor Demanet, AU A great medal design offered on eBay from NumisCorner. -Editor
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1862 Virginia Savings Bank Presentation Goblet 
American Silver Repousse Presentation Goblet, unmarked, engraved "Presented to/ S.S. Cottrell/ by/ The Va. Savings Bank/ 1862", bell-shaped cup on spreading foot, lotus leaf and bud chasing. Note: Probably Samuel Smith Cottrell (1819-1903), of Cottrell Saddlery & Harness of Richmond, VA, which furnished the Armies of the Confederacy with harness. While not numismatic, I thought this was a fascinating piece of Civil War history connected to a Virginia bank. -Editor
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