1789 1797 George Washington Coin not Token.

johnecko · 02-04-2009, 05:52 PM

Hi everyone, I already saw the token of this coin. My grandma' give it to me, and I think that its the original coin, if not please help me. Also I see that the token one cost $5 bucks on ebay, and there is some differences between the token and the coin. The first is that the token has the date 1789-1797 on front sides of the face, and the coin has the dates on the edge of the coin. On the back side the Token says: "American Fabius" and in the coin says: "American Fabious", I think that there is an error. The other thing is how its the paragraph typed. I will appreciate if can help me, Thanks.

johnecko · 02-04-2009, 06:16 PM

Hi everyone, I already saw the token of this coin. My grandma' give it to me, and I think that its the original coin, if not please help me. Also I see that the token one cost $5 bucks on ebay, and there is some differences between the token and the coin. The first is that the token has the date 1789-1797 on front sides of the face, and the coin has the dates on the edge of the coin. On the back side the Token says: "American Fabius" and in the coin says: "American Fabious", I think that there is an error. The other thing is how its the paragraph typed. I will appreciate if can help me, Thanks.

cwtokenman · 02-07-2009, 01:06 AM

I have a book devoted to issues regarding Washington, but after much searching, I could not find your item, sorry.

Hobo · 02-07-2009, 02:16 AM

It is definitely not a coin. I believe what you have is a token from something called "Mr Presidents Game" issued by Shell Oil Co.

Token? Coin?

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These presidential tokens seem to be a popular find among a lot of us, who seem to find these things at pretty much the same 5-6" depth. With the exception of the ancient-looking presidential token thingamajig with the red background posted in the photo forum, these tokens are apparently (without seeing photos of them) pieces to Shell Oil Co.'s "Mr. President's Game." They came in two versions, aluminum and brass, depending on how far along you got in the game. If you collected the whole set of presdential aluminum tokens by your parents filling up their car's gas tank enough times, you got a set of the brass tokens ... or a set of drinking glasses or 500 S&H green stamps or something like that. Shell also subsequently ran a "States of the Union" game with aluminum and brass pieces, but I haven't seen any posts this year from anyone finding those game tokens. I had a whole dresser junk drawer full of 'em in 1970.

bigheater · 07-21-2009, 12:35 PM

i have a coin and on the back of it describes when he was born and when he died in dec. 14, 1799.

hontonai · 07-21-2009, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bigheater

i have a coin

Round pieces of metal with a design on one or both sides may be coins, tokens, medals or medallions.

"Coins" are government-issued pieces of money, spendable as such in the issuing country or region.
"Tokens" are items intended to be used in lieu of money in a limited venue, such as a subway line, a single company's public telephones, or a merchant's store. They are usually non-governmental issues, but sometimes a public transportation agency issues tokens.
"Medals" and "Medallions" can be government or non-government issues commemorating a person or an event, which can not be used to buy anything (but of course could be used in a barter transaction, which is not the same thing).

You most probably have a medal/medallion, you may have a token, but you DO NOT have a coin!

The original poster apparently has two similar, but different, medals honoring George Washington. One is probably from the Shell series, but I don't know whether that series had two varieties, or some other company made a similar one.

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