Where did I get this stuff from? Why do I have them? Did I think they would be worth something? ARE they worth something? Does anyone know anything about the history of these tokens? I guess I could do a web search, but thought I'd post here for discussion purposes. I also liked the little blurbs that went along with them. Might be something of interest, or a learning experience, for some who didn't know.....like me!
I love it when my wife makes me clean old storage rooms and I find stuff like this..... Yes, I have seen these before. They used to be sold in museum gift shops. They would marry up a cast copy of an historic coin with a bit of written history and peddle them in the gift shop. Certainly is something I would have purchased as a youngster with my paper route money!
Yes sir, I did the same with a bit of my paper route money. A comic cost 12 cents and I would take the 3 cents left over to have a train crush them. Or I would buy fake confederate notes at the 5 & 10, or those huge cast aluminum copies of U.S. coins. Or some odd ball stuff from Littleton before I knew better.
Wow Tommy! What a flashback you just gave me. As a kid in single digits I could go to the corner store and get a comic book, a small fountain drink and a full sized candy bar. I'd pay for them and I would get three cents back in change from my Quarter. That was a long time ago. I never had the paper route but I use to park cars on the public street and get paid $2.00 for the spot. I lived one block from Memorial Stadium, home of the Orioles and the Colts. It was cheaper than parking on the stadium lot. Lol Then I'd get into the games on a free press pass and sell a dime newspaper of which I was paid two cents for every paper I sold. Thanks for the memories!
@Collecting Nut They were fun days to be sure. A quarter went a long ways. nickel candy bars, penny candy that was actually big. A 12 ounce soda in a bottle for 8 cents if you drank it there, 10 cents if you took it with you but you got your deposit back later. My paper route was not a local paper. It was the "Grit" out of Pa. Back then it was more like Mother Earth News. In the spring I would sell garden seeds from the American Seed Company. In the fall I would sell Christmas cards, tags, etc. When I was 15 I helped deliver 100 pound Canadian alfalfa bales of hay. ($15.00 per trip) We delivered mostly to Equestrian schools and I got to meet a lot of pretty rich girls. When I was 16 I was the youngest ever Avon distributor and sold from my bike door to door. Long story short, when you come from a family of 10 you earned everything you got. No allowances, no loans from Mom & Pop. And you learned the value of a dollar early on.
@tommyc03 I hear that! I used to pick blackberries and ride my bike door to door selling them. I also picked apples. Ten cents a bushel basket. After school I could make $3-$4 a day. On Saturday over $10 was easy. I must have done a good job as they gave me an hourly wage of $6 to walk behing the tractor and load up the wagon with the bushel baskets. Then it was off to sort by size and polish them for sale to the public. I could make $15-20 in a day. That was a lot of money in the mid to late sixties.
Yup, they're copies, but do NOT have the word "COPY" on them. After some thought, they may have been some sort of giveaway for joining Littleton Coin Company, or something like that. I think I'll keep them in my collection (not sure how to display them, yet), and tag them as copies, so others (when I die) don't think they're real!
