> > 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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> I don't know if there worth any thing, but my grandparent go to Mardi Gras each year and get a ton of those and a bunch of cheep plastic bead necklasses. I belive they throw them from the floats to the croweds, so they may not be worth much, althoug older ones might.
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> Spider-begoodforplaymoneythough-Boy

I thought they might be something like that. Ask your grandparents. I already know the story behind the necklasses, so maybe you shouldn't ask about that part.
Howard