It's Token Tuesday! Post 'em if you got 'em. 3 3

[zadok]

On 11/23/2021 at 4:51 PM, Revenant said:

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

..."old enuf"....our first phone u had to crank it, n hold receiver up to ur ear n speak into a mouthpiece...."phone booth" people thought those were outhouses with windows....just saying...

[Henri Charriere]

@Just Bob

 however, I am constrained to let you slide on this one. This is the beauty of being the Original Poster: one cannot derail one's own thread. Besides, the entire membership holds you in high regard, as do I.  

[Just Bob]

On 11/25/2021 at 9:18 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

@Just Bob

 however, I am constrained to let you slide on this one. This is the beauty of being the Original Poster: one cannot derail one's own thread. Besides, the entire membership holds you in high regard, as do I.  

What did I post that was off topic?

[Henri Charriere]

On 11/25/2021 at 11:04 PM, Just Bob said:

What did I post that was off topic?

Tickets 🎟 not tokens! 😉 

[Just Bob]

Actually, they are coupons that could be exchanged for tickets or merchandise. That puts them squarely in the exonumia category, just like the ice and coal company coupons and mercantile coupons that I posted earlier.

Edited November 26, 2021 by Just Bob

[Henri Charriere]

Very nice presentation. I should have known better. So that means my wooden nickels qualify and a booklet from the 1960's which still has a few tear-off 25-cent tickets to pay a toll to cross a draw-bridge in Nassau County, NY, qualifies as well. (Last I heard, it costs $19. to cross the Verrazzano to Staten Island from Brooklyn; the toll is higher for multi-axled vehicles.) Never even considered the x-factor (exonumia).  However, I would never desecrate your thread with "cat-house" tokens once used in late 19th century Nevada. Thanks for the clarification!   🐓 

[Fenntucky Mike]

Picked this one up a few days ago. Just liked that it was a knockoff of a 8R C&R.

Edited December 14, 2021 by Fenntucky Mike
Spelling

[Just Bob]

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.

 

[coinsarefun]

On 6/9/2020 at 8:55 AM, Yarm said:

Hull lead works (UK) halfpenny token.

That is outstanding Ya6rm!

[coinsarefun]

I collect a lot of Spier Mark and other such gaming tokens. This set is a Argentina set. I think it’s about the only set I’ve ever do pleated

and, I didn’t even try to…..lol

but the hardest piece to find was this one. 27mm copper Counter Token  

13 Stars, Liberty  1876  REPUBLICA ARGENTINA  NGC MS63BN R-9  So now the set is complete.

 

 

 

 

 

[coinsarefun]

And Kettle tokens are a favorite of mine. This is brass but toned. 
 

 

[coinsarefun]

Now, to me this is super interesting ! I have not researched to find the year that Lauer created this Spiel but looking close it echoes the 
1879 New York Martinka & Co. NGC MS63 merchant token I bought a while back

 

 

This is the Spiel I picked up recently 
Spiel Marke Counter Token Cable Car/ mundus vult decipi discipiatur
Phrase, means "The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
I am aware and did read that this shop once was owned by Houdi and he had a double
Obverse made of this token……..Martinka token ….I assume this token is put out by the merchant. Which was him at one time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For giggles I photoshop each coin to show the size differences, simply because on or the other
came out blurry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Henri Charriere]

On 1/17/2022 at 6:38 PM, coinsarefun said:

Now, to me this is super interesting ! I have not researched to find the year that Lauer created this Spiel but looking close it echoes the 
1879 New York Martinka & Co. NGC MS63 merchant token I bought a while back

This is the Spiel I picked up recently 
Spiel Marke Counter Token Cable Car/ mundus vult decipi discipiatur
Phrase, means "The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

For giggles I photoshop each coin to show the size differences, simply because on or the other
came out blurry.

Re "spiel"... any relation to schmo, shlamazel, schlepping or schlemiel, etymologically?

[coinsarefun]

On 1/17/2022 at 3:55 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

Re "spiel"... any relation to schmo, shlamazel, schlepping or schlemiel, etymologically?

This might help you 

http://www.ccgtcc-ccn.com/GamingTokens.pdf

 

or this

https://archive.org/details/tamsjournal1262toke

Or this

https://s3.amazonaws.com/auctionmobility-wordpress-node-4/wp-content/uploads/holabird/2020/08/13175729/Gaming-Counters-Essay.pdf

 

and of course there is mine ats

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1015465/spiel-marke-tokens-kettle-tokens-gaming-tokens-and-gold-rush-tokens-information-inside/p1

[Henri Charriere]

🐓:  I'll take that as a yes.  If it were no, you would have said so. 😉  

[Just Bob]

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.

 

[coinsarefun]

In conjunction with the ANA, Joe Rust, president of the Gallery Mint Museum, refurbished and refitted the first steam press

used by the U.S. Mint. Rust said at the time, "It was a wonderful experience to work on this press that carries so much history with it.
Copper and silver versions were struck. I have a silver, copper and one error.

 

[tj96]

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

 

 

[Just Bob]

On 1/19/2022 at 9:29 PM, tj96 said:

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

 

 

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:

 

Edited January 20, 2022 by Just Bob

[tj96]

On 1/20/2022 at 10:22 AM, Just Bob said:

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:

 

Bob-

Man, thanks very much for that.  I had no idea!  Are these things (errors) sought after in the token community?

 

[Just Bob]

On 1/20/2022 at 1:13 PM, tj96 said:

Bob-

Man, thanks very much for that.  I had no idea!  Are these things (errors) sought after in the token community?

 

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.

[tj96]

On 1/25/2022 at 9:14 PM, Just Bob said:

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.

Yes, exactly!  Like a test piece.  Thanks!

[Just Bob]

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.

 

 

[Hoghead515]

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.

[Hoghead515]

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. 

[Hoghead515]

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

[tj96]

Very nice Hoghead! 

[Hoghead515]

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. 

 

 

[coinsarefun]

CANADA. Montreal Witness Prize Competition. WM Token (26mm, 2.65 g, 12h). Dated 1891. THE PENNY OF THE TIME OF OUR LORD, obverse of a Tiberius denarius of the ‘Tribute penny’ type / THE MONTREAL WITNESS CANADA PRIZE COMPETITION, reverse of a Tiberius denarius of the ‘Tribute penny’ type; 1891 below. Breton 609. UNC. 

The Montreal Witness sponsored a writing contest for school children, for which participants were awarded this token. 
And a small mintage of 2,000
The obverse die is reported broken.

[coinsarefun]

The information provided below my token is provided by. NovaNumismatics.com The Bailey & Co began its existence as the Bailey & Kitchen Jewelry Company in 1830. Founded by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey and Andrew B. Kitchen, the firm was located at 136 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Joseph Bailey was an accomplished silversmith and jeweler, and along with his partner Andrew Kitchen, the firm was a renowned business which had earned strong loyalty by its customers. In 1846 the two partners decided to dissolve their partnership. However, the firm experienced a rebirth when Joseph’s brother Eli formed a new partnership with Jeremiah Robbins and James Gallagher. With the birth of the new partnership, the business continued its operations at the same Chestnut Street address. Operating under the moniker Bailey & Co., the firm continued at its same location for the next 13 years. In 1851 Joseph Trowbridge Bailey Jr joined the firm as an apprentice. Just a mere three years later he rose to become president of the company. Two years thereafter he became a partner. In 1866 Eli retired, and twelve years later the firm was reorganized once again. Renamed Bailey, Banks & Biddle, the firm remained a staple Philadelphia firm until 1961, when it was acquired by the Zales Jewelry Company.