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Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.45
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999, at 16:41:46

I figure there must be some people on this forum who have been to the big New Orleans bash called Mardi Gras. Maybe some of them can tell me what I have, I bought a bag of aluminum tokens at a thrift store in Georgia. They are 40mm in diameter and about 2 mm thick. That is about the size of a US silver dollar. Here's what they look like:
front; Argus, Mardi Gras Jefferson Parish, LA 1972
Engraving of a guy with a beard and no shirt.
back; Creatures Great and Small 1986
It shows a lion, an eagle, and a bee.
another one:
front; Thor 1972. back; Thor's Fantasy Island 1983 Both side show a guy with wings on his hat.
One more:
front; Atlas 1969 Naked guy holding earth with lightning bolts all around. back; Our Planet Earth 1983
I have about 30 different tokens and with duplicates, maybe 80 or 90. What can you tell me about them? I've been to the Big Easy a couple of times and I've never seen anything like these.
Howard

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