Tokens & Medals

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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About this site

Tokens and Medals is a reading list for exonumia: the tokens, medals, so-called dollars and other struck pieces that circulated beside money without ever being money. The hobby's best references are scattered across private mints, society journals, university libraries and collector-built catalogs. This page keeps the ones worth knowing in one place.

Every entry is a site we use ourselves. Nothing here is sponsored, and no link is an endorsement of anything a site sells. Descriptions are ours, written to say what each resource is good for.

The site is published by Pueblo Internet Publishing LLC in Pueblo, Colorado, and it will grow as the list does.