Back with a second World's Fair medal. I don't know how one acquired these during the fair but reading the obverse of this one it seems you could redeem it for an actual US dollar.
I guess that means any participating location would take this in trade for USD...I wonder what they did with them then? Did they have to send a bag of them to Century 21 for redemption?
Look, it's the Climate Pledge Arena next to the words "one dollar".
The reverse has some Seattle lore, including: the newly built Seattle Space Needle, the monorail, the skyline of Seattle, laurels, and a globe with the outline of Washington State xD
There are other medals out there but I only have this one and this one. They're neat and I got them because I love Seattle, but I am not collecting the rest.
This one is also made of brass, though it's a bit bigger diameter than the other one.
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This is the same one I have (from Grandma’s house) but yours is in way better condition. (Mine looks like a dirty old penny. My parents told me you could buy these and either keep them as a souvenir or use them as ride/consession tokens. But $1 in 1962 seems like a hefty fee for either.
During the fair my grandpa paid to take my mom, my grandma and his mother up on a plane to fly over the space needle. It was a special thing you could buy in conjunction with fair tickets. I wonder if they took tokens? 😄
Love those stories! So you had to pay a dollar for the token, then you could redeem it for a dollar if you wanted.
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I can vaguely remember my kiddie years seeing the Space Needle landmark when my parents took the family to visit a few friends in Seattle. It's like some space ship.
That's neat. I was an adult the first time I saw the
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Hehehe never been in seattle! The grunge land hehehe
I feel you! Thats how we collect coins with thematics that we love!
Well, bring your flannel shirt if you ever make it down xD
Indeed! That's what makes silver coins and rounds so much fun, the variety!
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