[jamby]

See this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_token

New word for me. Cool.

Exonumia.

-jamby

[palmimports]

Exonumia.
Thats what ya get when ya try syphoning gasoline and get some in your lungs aint it??

[RTBrandy]

Originally Posted by jamby

See this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_token

New word for me. Cool.

Exonumia.

-jamby

OK, I'll watch!!

[Trojan man]

Who invents these things anyway Webster?

So what is the pronunciation of this wonderful new word?

Edit: I guess if I would have gone a little further I would have found it

The noun exonumia is derived from two classical roots: exo, meaning "out-of" in Greek, and nummus, meaning "coin" in Latin; thus, "out[side]-of-[the category]coins". Usually, the term "exonumia" is applied to these objects in the United States, while the equivalent British term is paranumismatica.
The words exonumist and exonumia were invented in July 1960 by Russell Rulau, a recognized authority and author on the subject, and accepted by Webster's dictionary in 1965.

[7thSeat]

I got a Pippi Longstocking coin.

[Magus 23]

Well, those of us in the U.S. would be exonumists. Those in the U.K. would be paranumismatics. I suppose other countries would use the term appropriate to the nation from which their linguistic standards most directly developed.

Any of our foreign contingent care to weigh in? And yes, that includes you Canadians. I do realize that you're a separate nation.