The coin club met yesterday, and we had a very nice presentation from Mr. Miller, one of our new members. He focuses on Louisville memorabilia, and he has some very nice items relating to the Southern Exposition that ran in Louisville US history up to that point, exceeded only by Philadelphia
There were some very nice tokens and medals (as well as photographs and engravings) that we got to view, and it was all pretty interesting.
The Expo took place primarily in an enormous 12-acre building that stood where now lie St. James and Belgravia Courts. Central Park was sort of a promenade/midway.
I've kind of glommed on to the fact that Central Park has been raked over pretty hard by detectorists in the past few decades, by the way.
At our coin club auction, I bid on a reference book for Hard Times Tokens, but I didn't want to go over five dollars. It ended up going for six.
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