Pressed Penny with image of
Mr. Bob Johnson
and the Disneyland Castle.
One of the three pressed
coins
vended
at Mr. Johnson's Retirement Party.
Pressed Penny with image of
Mr. Bob Johnson
underwater. This is the image on the reverse of the
coins
vended
at Mr. Johnson's Retirement Party.
"Bob Johnson
Retirement Celebration.
After 40 years,
Bob is going to take one
last dive into retirement.
October 26, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.
West Rehearsal Hall"
Bob Johnson's Disneyland Retirement
Diver 1, 40 Years of Magic!
Bob Johnson, above the water, stopping for a picture near
the Disneyland Submarine Voyage Attraction.
What a cool profession!
Mr. Johnson was the first Disneyland Cast Member in history to be honored by three different elongated coins at his retirement. Each coin memorializes a part of his life at Disneyland. One coin offers his image with a background of Disneyland Resort, one features Diver Goofy the mascot of his diving specialty, and one features Electro Mechanical Mickey Mouse representing his family's contributions to Disneyland attractions. Each coin reverse has a special retirement reverse "Bob Johnson" in SCUBA gear, "40 Years of Magic". All three coins were vended at his retirement party via a single three play penny press that was on-site for use by all attendees. These coins are surely some of the harder sets to find. As of this update, a full three months after the event, this author has not seen a single coin from this set offered publicly via auction, sale, or trade and very few in the hands of collectors. Possibly because attendees only pressed coins that they wished to keep as remembrances of the day.
Note: Mr. Johnson's unique profession has been the subject of newspaper articles for many years. Please read more about Mr. Johnson, and his very interesting life at Disneyland via newspaper articles and interviews available from libraries and the internet. Here, at ParkPennies.com, we are all about his cool retirement elongated coins. :-)
We hope attendees of Mr. Johnson's retirement party will continue to contact ParkPennies.com with their very welcome contributions to this page in honor of Mr. Johnson's "40 years of Magic" at the Disneyland Resort.
Bob Johnson,
40 Years of Magic
Retirement Party Elongated Coins
CM0041Retired Horizontal pressed penny image Engraved image of Mr. Bob Johnson with castle and mountain image in the background, no border. Vended via a three play penny press available to the guests of Mr. Johnson's retirement party on October 26th, 2011.
As with the Bill Hogarth and Jack Steiner retirement pressed coins, the Bob Johnson pressed coins were also selectively distributed on dimes, nickels, quarters and tokens in very limited quantities. Reverse: "BOB JOHNSON, DISNEYLAND, 40 YEARS OF MAGIC" with an etched image of a diver in the center of the reverse above "40 years of magic".
CM0041 Mr. Bob Johnson, Bob Johnson Retirement View pressed penny image in
frame or window # 123
CM0039-41r Retired
Bob Johnson 40 Years of Magic
Reverse
elongated coin reverse. Detail view of the CM0039-41 Bob Johnson retirement pressed penny set reverse. Reads: "BOB JOHNSON, DISNEYLAND, 40 YEARS OF MAGIC" with an etched image of a diver in the center of the reverse above "40 years of magic".
This is a representative image of this style backstamp or reverse. However, each coin type in this set will have a slightly different reverse image as each coin type has a separate and slightly unique reverse engraving. Larger pressed penny image in
frame or window # 123