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In 1899, Charles McCorkle opened a general store in Booneville, Mississippi. He ran the store until his death in 1938 at the age of 70.
The Mississippi token book lists and pictures a 5 cent token - unique when the book was written - and also states that one ten cent token is known to exist. I don't know if this is that one, or if this is another one. I also have seen a one dollar token, which is not listed in the book.
Seller's pics. I just bought this one, and it has not arrived yet.
 
 

Been thinking about starting a collection of these old mining company tokens. We work in these mining towns all the time. It be a fun little collection for me. Own a piece of history of some of the towns Ive worked in. 
 
 

I know Ive shared this one before. But its one of my favorites. 

When I collect tokens I like to collect ones from Ky. I dont have very many right now. But it was very cool looking at several on Ebay that were from several little towns I know and have worked in.  And these came from those little towns many years before I was born. 

I think I may have posted this before. This is the only one Ive found of this one. It is in very poor shape but it is cool to me. Its from my hometown. My grandpa worked and retired from this brickyard. I would love to find a better one. If anyone ever sees any please let me know. It would mean a whole lot to me. OLIVE HILL FIREBRICK CO.

In 1899, Charles McCorkle opened a general store in Booneville, Mississippi. He ran the store until his death in 1938 at the age of 70.
The Mississippi token book lists and pictures a 5 cent token - unique when the book was written - and also states that one ten cent token is known to exist. I don't know if this is that one, or if this is another one. I also have seen a one dollar token, which is not listed in the book.
Seller's pics. I just bought this one, and it has not arrived yet.
 
 

In 1899, Charles McCorkle opened a general store in Booneville, Mississippi. He ran the store until his death in 1938 at the age of 70.
The Mississippi token book lists and pictures a 5 cent token - unique when the book was written - and also states that one ten cent token is known to exist. I don't know if this is that one, or if this is another one. I also have seen a one dollar token, which is not listed in the book.
Seller's pics. I just bought this one, and it has not arrived yet.
 
 

Your piece was originally one of several varieties of Silver Stripe token. The Silver Stripe was a restaurant and lounge, located on University Ave. in St.Paul, Minnesota. It was owned by Fay Decker and Frank Glombitz. There is one piece known that was overstruck for the John T. Colbert Tavern, which reads: "JACK / C / 586." Yours appears to say " Steve / 7981 / Schwartz" on one side. I can't make out the lettering on the other side. It appears to have been overstruck more than once.
Here is a picture of one variety of the Silver Stripe token, which closely resembles yours:
 

The Jackson-State National Bank was established in 1889, and remains open today as Trustmark National Bank. The bank printed three types and denominations of national currency, totaling $281,650.
This piece was issued in 1939 to commemorate the bank's 50th anniversary.
 

The Green Duck Company was formed in 1906 in Chicago by George Greenburg and Henry Duckgeischel, former colleagues at S.D.Childs, one of the premier diesinking and engraving businesses in Chicago. The new company put itself on the map by getting contracts for campaign buttons from both political parties in the 1908 presidential election. The company continued making beer tap knobs, signs, pinback buttons, watch fobs, and other metal novelties in various locations around Chicago until it was sold to Ero Industries, in the 1960s. Ero moved the company to a new plant in Hernando, Mississippi. It was sold again in the mid 70s to investors Elliot Sklar and Ronald Stein. The focus of the company shifted to mainly minting Mardi Gras doubloons and casino slot machine tokens and poker chips. It was sold to a British firm in the 90s.
These are examples of their work featuring the company name and/or logo.
 

Many collectors are probably like me: I will buy errors that are part of the series that I collect, but I don't make a point to find or collect errors in particular. Some errors. like rotated or cracked dies, are actually quite common in some series of tokens. I don't really think yours is an accidental error, though. This is just me speculating, but it looks like yours was overstruck intentionally, like someone at the manufacturer was adjusting the spacing on the dies, and grabbed an extra token that happened to be on hand. I could be completely off base, though.

This is some kind of error token.  I have no idea.  Maybe you guys know.
 
 

I think I remembered reading something about a weakly struck variety for that year, so I got out my Snow book and laid it on the couch, to look at when we got back from going to a friend's house to eat. When I got home, I discovered that my wife's new rescue dog had eaten the cover and shredded many of the pages. I tried to find the 1857 pages and piece them together, but no luck. 

Not if the person passing the coin down was her father. Even a grown woman can still think that her father was infallible. And, if he was thought to be an expert collector, it will be hard to convince her that he could have been fooled by anyone or any coin.

Not if the person passing the coin down was her father. Even a grown woman can still think that her father was infallible. And, if he was thought to be an expert collector, it will be hard to convince her that he could have been fooled by anyone or any coin.

Not if the person passing the coin down was her father. Even a grown woman can still think that her father was infallible. And, if he was thought to be an expert collector, it will be hard to convince her that he could have been fooled by anyone or any coin.

And, the numismatic world will be richer for it, in my opinion.

It took me several months to figure out what Tom's avatar was. I was too embarrassed to ask.

Was someone at the mint drinking heavily? I don't see how someone could mistakenly confuse dies for a double eagle, a half, and a quarter with cent dies, unless it was intentional, or they were hammered.

Was someone at the mint drinking heavily? I don't see how someone could mistakenly confuse dies for a double eagle, a half, and a quarter with cent dies, unless it was intentional, or they were hammered.

So, now, you have no life. 

That has to be one of the ugliest Barber dimes I have ever seen.
I love it !!  

Your piece was originally one of several varieties of Silver Stripe token. The Silver Stripe was a restaurant and lounge, located on University Ave. in St.Paul, Minnesota. It was owned by Fay Decker and Frank Glombitz. There is one piece known that was overstruck for the John T. Colbert Tavern, which reads: "JACK / C / 586." Yours appears to say " Steve / 7981 / Schwartz" on one side. I can't make out the lettering on the other side. It appears to have been overstruck more than once.
Here is a picture of one variety of the Silver Stripe token, which closely resembles yours:
 

The Jackson-State National Bank was established in 1889, and remains open today as Trustmark National Bank. The bank printed three types and denominations of national currency, totaling $281,650.
This piece was issued in 1939 to commemorate the bank's 50th anniversary.
 

So, now, you have no life.