Just Bob

+1
 
Date, type, value, or even denomination should not be used to determine whether a coin has a mint error or has been damaged. I have experimented on coins taken from pocket change, trying to mimic mint errors or damage, without ever looking at the date or mint mark. There is no accounting for why people do what they do.

Looks legit to me. Fading of the details, Blakesley, the D and portrait on the obv and 1 on the rev look faded/stretchy. The rims do seem kind of sharp at the clip  but I'm chalking that up to lighting/camera angle. 

Picked this one up a few weeks ago shortly after I posted the .10 & .25 cent tokens, funny how that works sometimes. Now I'm only missing the .01 and .50 cent issues for this store. The color schemes are almost always the same .01 = black, .05 = green, .10 = blue, .25 = red and .50 = pink. In fact, I haven't seen any food stamp tokens in my region that didn't follow that color pattern. 

Here’s a catch up photo. Was directed here from newbie. See you next Tuesday 

It took wiping my laptop and reloading Windows, but I finally got it to communicate with my phone again, so I can resume loading pictures and posting here.
The Beverly Drive-In was opened in 1948, with one screen and an 800 car capacity. It had a miniature golf course out front. The owner and his family lived in a house under the screen. A second screen was added in 1979. The owner passed away in 1987, and the theater closed. It was reopened in 2001, and remained open until it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It burned down in 2010.
I spent quite a few nights watching movies at this theater, at first with my family, later with friends and dates. In my late teens, I owned a pickup with a camper shell on back. We would throw a mattress in the back, pull into the parking place with the rear of the truck facing the screen, lower the tailgate and raise the camper shell liftgate, and lie in the back and watch the movie.
 

Looks like the New Univender model 180 made by Stoner Mfg. 
Memory Lane Restorations out of Maryland sells a parts catalog for those machines.
Cool finding the coins in there.  

It took wiping my laptop and reloading Windows, but I finally got it to communicate with my phone again, so I can resume loading pictures and posting here.
The Beverly Drive-In was opened in 1948, with one screen and an 800 car capacity. It had a miniature golf course out front. The owner and his family lived in a house under the screen. A second screen was added in 1979. The owner passed away in 1987, and the theater closed. It was reopened in 2001, and remained open until it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It burned down in 2010.
I spent quite a few nights watching movies at this theater, at first with my family, later with friends and dates. In my late teens, I owned a pickup with a camper shell on back. We would throw a mattress in the back, pull into the parking place with the rear of the truck facing the screen, lower the tailgate and raise the camper shell liftgate, and lie in the back and watch the movie.
 

On August 3rd, 1938, Mssrs. H.J.Wilson, D.A. Graves, and H.H Parker filed a record of charter to form the Copiah County Building & Development Co. in Hazlehurst, MS. Its stated purpose was to, among other things, " buy, own, lease, and operate lumber yards,"  "buy, sell, and exchange wares and goods," and to "buy, own, sell, and lease timber and timber lands." 
On March 23, 1943, an amendment to the charter was filed, changing the name to Graves, Inc.
In addition to the $0.25, $0.50, and $1.00 tokens shown, a $0.05 token was also issued.
 

R.T. Sleeper, W.M. Hemeter, D.D. Carter, W.P Martin, and J.W. Rush incorporated the Lyndon Lumber company near Wingate, MS in Perry County, on May 9, 1903. They built a circular saw mill that produced 50,000 board feet of yellow pine lumber a day. They owned 5 locomotives that ran on 12 miles of track. By 1911 all of the trees had been cut, and the equipment was sold. On February 1, 1912, the cut-over land and the mill site were sold to a Mr. Ellis B. Cooper for $1.75 per acre. The company was officially dissolved in 1913. 
I have been putting this set together for several years. I finally found the last piece - the 5 cent token - last week. It was one of the nicest pieces in the set: a nice AU with very shiny fields and a bit of frost on the devices.
 

In 1906, the Bullard brothers built a sawmill south of Savoy, MS, at a point where the Mobile & Ohio RR, and the New Orleans and Northeastern RR, came together and ran only a few feet apart for several miles, before separating again. It was a convenient spot to load and ship their lumber products to many different parts of the country. Below is a picture of the two tracks running side-by-side. The M&O is the one on the left with the train on it; the NO&NE is on the right.
This token is not listed in the Mississippi book. Along with the 10 cent piece that I own, I also know of a 50 cent and a 25 cent token which exist.
 

Lucious Lafayette Lampton and his son-in-law Eugene Wesley Reid opened a general store in Magnolia, Mississippi in 1914. Mr. Lampton passed away in 1924, and Mr. Reid passed in 1939. The store closed the following year.
The store issued tokens in one cent through 50 cents, in brass and aluminum, in at least two varieties. At this time, I only have this one, but I am always on the hunt for others.
The house pictured below belonged to Mr. Lampton, and is still standing.
 
 

Orvisburg is an obsolete lumber town that was established in 1888. The last of the mills closed in 1927, and the town died out.
 
This view at Orvisburg looks east from the Champion lumber mill, and shows part of the town near the railroad depot. Not a single building is left today at this location.
 
The only denomination listed in either Chatham's Mississippi book, or Terry Trantow's lumber company token book is the 10 cent. Not long ago, Steve Hayden (Civilwartokens.com) listed these other denominations, and I managed to land all but the 50 cent example. 
 
 
 

"Naval Stores" are products produced from the resin of pine trees, such as lubricants, soaps, paints and varnishes, etc. From the mid 1920s to 1940, J.B. Newton (see my second post on page one) owned production facilities in Brooklyn, Wiggins, and the site of this particular business: Carnes, MS.
In addition to the dollar token shown here, tokens were also issued in denominations of 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, and 5 dollars.
 

The lips look like they were modeled after a picture of Elvis.
And, those aren't planchet cracks.

The original master die for 1960 had a small date, but there was evidently a problem with the "0" getting filled, so a new master die was created in which the "0" was made taller and more oval shaped, (and the other numbers of the date changed as well,) creating the large date variety. A large date hub was used to create a working die, but, somehow, a small date hub was then impressed into the die on top of the original impression. Oddly, the mint mark was also first punched way too high, then re-punched lower, creating a D/D. So, you have a combination of a small-over-large date and a RPM on one coin.

The original master die for 1960 had a small date, but there was evidently a problem with the "0" getting filled, so a new master die was created in which the "0" was made taller and more oval shaped, (and the other numbers of the date changed as well,) creating the large date variety. A large date hub was used to create a working die, but, somehow, a small date hub was then impressed into the die on top of the original impression. Oddly, the mint mark was also first punched way too high, then re-punched lower, creating a D/D. So, you have a combination of a small-over-large date and a RPM on one coin.

The lips look like they were modeled after a picture of Elvis.
And, those aren't planchet cracks.

The original master die for 1960 had a small date, but there was evidently a problem with the "0" getting filled, so a new master die was created in which the "0" was made taller and more oval shaped, (and the other numbers of the date changed as well,) creating the large date variety. A large date hub was used to create a working die, but, somehow, a small date hub was then impressed into the die on top of the original impression. Oddly, the mint mark was also first punched way too high, then re-punched lower, creating a D/D. So, you have a combination of a small-over-large date and a RPM on one coin.

The lips look like they were modeled after a picture of Elvis.
And, those aren't planchet cracks.

Here's a fun one for those of us old enough to remember when phones looked like this: a phone (booth?) token.

After working for the Maryland and Stonewall plantations in Holmes County, Mississippi, R.Lee "Uncle Buddy" Peaster, along with his wife "Miss Mable," purchased the Dunbarton plantation, and later, the Quofaloma plantation, which adjoined the Dunbarton. This was in 1905, and he ran the store there until 1940, when he turned it over to Mr. Guy Campbell. He also owned a store in Mileston, MS, and is listed as the owner of the Paradise Plantation, although I was unable to find out if this was a separate plantation, or if he changed the name of one that he had purchased earlier. 
The 5 cent token that I own is listed as an R5 (15-24 known.) There are also 10 cent and one dollar tokens known to exist - both also listed as R5.
 

I am lazily re-posting something from an earlier thread, but it fits here:
What is a "Doo-ga-loo?" you ask. Well, it is a slang name for a trade token. They were also known as Brozenes, Doodlum, or Counters, among other names. These were used in place of money at various times in the past. This particular one is from the 1950s, and was found under the cork in a metal bottle cap.The finder could redeem the token for its face value in cash. Double Cola was one of the popular issuers of these, but this particular one was under the cap of a Big 12 Cola.It is from the town of Macon, Mississippi, and is made of very thin aluminum - so thin that it can be bent quite easily. And, it is only readable from one side, like a dogtag. They were minted in 5 cent and 10 cent denominations, and this one is the former. I also included a picture of one of the bottles, from an Ebay listing.
 

This is actually a great coin for a "guess the grade" post. The marks on the cheek and breast (focal points) make most of us think 63, but the fields are nice - especially on the reverse. The pictures show the marks prominently, but the coin may actually look much better in hand. If it came back higher than a 64, most of us would think "overgraded," but, if the eye sees it differently than the lens sees, it may have graded 64+ or even 65.
On the other hand, the numerous rim hits and the fact that not a single letter, numeral, or star escaped without a scratch may have kept the grade low.
It's a good-looking Morgan, though, and I am thinking that it probably looks much better in hand than the pictures allow. (I am still sticking with my guess of 63, though.) Looking forward to the reveal.

This is actually a great coin for a "guess the grade" post. The marks on the cheek and breast (focal points) make most of us think 63, but the fields are nice - especially on the reverse. The pictures show the marks prominently, but the coin may actually look much better in hand. If it came back higher than a 64, most of us would think "overgraded," but, if the eye sees it differently than the lens sees, it may have graded 64+ or even 65.
On the other hand, the numerous rim hits and the fact that not a single letter, numeral, or star escaped without a scratch may have kept the grade low.
It's a good-looking Morgan, though, and I am thinking that it probably looks much better in hand than the pictures allow. (I am still sticking with my guess of 63, though.) Looking forward to the reveal.

I like it as a 63, but I am going to say NGC gave it a 64.