GERMANY, porcelain medals & tokens
    Around the end of the 19th century one of the porcelain factories in the town of Meissen started making medallets out of hard terra cotta and porcelain.  They proved popular and a series of several hundred items was produced over a period of about 60 years.  The earliest one I've seen was 1896, the latest I know of was made during the time of the defunct German Democratic Republic.  They are pretty, they are interesting, I think they're cool.  The catalog numbers are from Scheuch or Upton.

GERMANY, DRESDEN-TRACHAU, 38mm white, gold edge & design elements, S-713r 1922, Church of the Apostle, mintage <200, AU $130.00 sold
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GERMANY, DRESDEN, 38mm white, gold edge & design elements, S729q, 1923, 225 anniversary Saxon Pioneer & Engineer Corps, mintage <200, Unc $130.00 sold
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GERMANY, DRESDEN, 38mm white, green edge & design elements, S729q, 1923, 225 anniversary Saxon Pioneer & Engineer Corps, S729v, Unc $130.00 sold 5/16/2008
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GERMANY, DRESDEN, 36mm brown, S-1268a, 1921 fat guy facing / same guy from the back, Butter Brothers, diemakers, Unc $55.00 sold
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GERMANY, HAMBURG, 40 pfennig, 26mm brown, U6-1, S-295a, ND, cherub on wings / ...HOCHBAHN, Unc $31.00 sold 4/13/2009
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GERMANY, HÖHR, 25 pfennig brown, 25p black, 2x 50p black, 75p brown, 75p black, U6-13, 15, 9, 1, 3, 1921 in original box, seems that one of the 50p is a replacement for a missing brown, box torn, tokens AU-Unc $110.00 sold 4/2/2008
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GERMANY, HEIDELBERG, 42mm porcelain, arms, 1544 FRÖLICH PFALZ . GOTT ERHALTS / view of university, SCHLOSS HEIDELBERG... set of 3: brown Unc, white Unc, & black painted brown few chips, XF, in worn cardboard case, missing clasp, $63.00
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 30mm, scalloped hexagonal, brown with gold elements, S-nl, lion rampant L holding castle, TENNISCLUB MEISSEN 1896, shallow edge chip rev., XF $150.00 sold 5/16/2008
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 30 pfennig, U-6-16, 1921, cup, 18mm white, Unc $18.00 sold
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 50 pfennig, U6-14, 1921, grapes, 21mm white, AU $18.00 sold
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 39mm white, purple design elements, S-1955y, 1921 naked guy with basket of grapes on his shoulders / cask supported by grapes, OTTO HORN, wine wholesaler, mintage <200, Unc $130.00 sold 5/16/2008
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 39mm white, gold edge, S-2037o, sectioned diamond, W - V - S - V at corners, STÄDISCHE FARBSCHULE ... 1919 / guy in medieval garb & his twin straddling multicolor cube, mintage <200, Unc $130.00 sold
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GERMANY, MEISSEN, 39mm white, gold edge & design element, 377q, eagle / flaming lamp, FEUERBESTATTUNGSVEREIN . 1911 . 1921, (cremation society), mintage <200, Unc $150.00 sold
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GERMANY, MÜNSTERBERG, 25 pfennig, U6-2, 1921 castle, 25mm brown, Unc $11.00 sold
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GERMANY, MÜNSTERBERG, 50 pfennig, U6-1, ND, naked boy sleeping on grape vine, 27mm brown, Unc $15.00 sold 3/12/2008
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GERMANY, OBERLÖSNITZ, 39mm white with purple design elements, S2181v, naked guys holding giant bunch of grapes / vinyard before mansion, viticulture assoc., 1922, mintage <200, Unc 130.00 sold 5/16/2008
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GERMANY, OBERSCHLESIEN, 5 mark U-6-1, S-3892, 1921 mother & children, 42mm brown, Unc $55.00 sold
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GERMANY, SAXONY (MEISSEN), 20 pfennig, U-nl, 1921, grain & sickle, 19mm brown, Unc $9.00 sold
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GERMANY, SAXONY (MEISSEN), 50 pfennig U6-13, 1921, grapes & shovel, 21mm brown, Unc $9.00 sold
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GERMANY, SAXONY (MEISSEN), 1 mark, U6-11, 1921 ship, 25mm brown, Unc $12.00 sold
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SAXONY (MEISSEN), 10 mark, U6-26, 1921 tower / bell, 40mm brown, AU-Unc $35.00 sold
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GERMANY, WALDENBURG, "herbergstaler," 48mm white, S-492n, ND (1922), sleeping guy, Unc $75.00 sold
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GERMANY, WEIXDORF-LAUSA, 50 pfennig, U6-3, 1921, acorn, 24mm brown, Unc $11.00 sold
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GERMANY, WEIXDORF-LAUSA, 2 mark, U6-1, 1921, John the Baptist, 31mm brown, Unc $20.00 sold
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GERMANY, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 61mm white porcelain, building, ARBEITERGEDENKSTÄTTE IN GOTHA / 100. JAHRESTAG DER KRITIK VON MARX UND ENGLES AM ENTWURF DES GOTHER PARTIEPROGRAMMS SOWIE SED GOTHAER VEREINIGUNGSKRONGRESSES, Unc $18.00 sold 9/11/2008
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GERMANY, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 62mm white porcelain, head 1/4 L / DR. THEODOR NEUBAUER GEBOREN AM 10.12.1890 AM 5.2.1945 VON DEN FASCHISTEN ERMORDET, Unc $18.00 sold 9/11/2008
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